Widertuaugusta88's ActivityTypepadTypepadtag:typepad.com,2003:profile.typepad.com/services/activity/atom/tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttp://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d01b8d09475a0970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-11-20T09:36:18Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d01b8d094759d970cUber offering more perks to its full-time US drivershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-11-20T09:36:18Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/8fd06e9262972a56e59b6797d8f377c0/200396306/Black_Car_Driver_Color_thumbnail.jpg"/> Uber has been up against the ropes lately. For one, it's dealing with the fall out from an exec's suggestion it should be investigating critical journalists. Plus it's combating a report that claims a 'God Mode' allows its employees to track...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:wF9xT3WuBAs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:-BTjWOF_DHI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/Rvjtavsy-bU" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/Rvjtavsy-bU/">http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/Rvjtavsy-bU/</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://southamptonsocialclub.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/excellent-dining-choices-in-the-hamptons/">raiders</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://southamptonsocialclub.blogspot.com/2014/10/excellent-restaurants-in-hamptons.html">chicago fire</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.kiwibox.com/SHsocialclub/blog/entry/119354467/finding-the-perfect-wedding-venue-in-the-hamptons/?pPage=0">september 11</a> &nbsp; <img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/8fd06e9262972a56e59b6797d8f377c0/200396306/Black_Car_Driver_Color_thumbnail.jpg"/> Uber has been up against the ropes lately. For one, it's dealing with the fall out from an exec's suggestion it should be investigating critical journalists. Plus it's combating a report that claims a 'God Mode' allows its employees to track...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:wF9xT3WuBAs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:-BTjWOF_DHI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Rvjtavsy-bU:AhQ9Gwaj5y4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/Rvjtavsy-bU" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/Rvjtavsy-bU/">http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/Rvjtavsy-bU/</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://southamptonsocialclub.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/excellent-dining-choices-in-the-hamptons/">raiders</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://southamptonsocialclub.blogspot.com/2014/10/excellent-restaurants-in-hamptons.html">chicago fire</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.kiwibox.com/SHsocialclub/blog/entry/119354467/finding-the-perfect-wedding-venue-in-the-hamptons/?pPage=0">september 11</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d01bb07a23ac4970d Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-10-30T04:06:16Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d01bb07a23ac1970dTidal brings pristine streaming music to nearly every device you ownhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-10-30T04:06:16Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/4a8515179d00fb9e5a11f65776bdd874/200993536/tidal-ipad_thumbnail.jpg"/> You can already check out Deezer Elite if you want high-quality streaming music, but it's only available on Sonos devices. That's not very useful when you're away from home, is it? Thankfully, Aspiro has stepped in to fill that void with a far more...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:wF9xT3WuBAs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:-BTjWOF_DHI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/8NrJ41Yc4zY" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/8NrJ41Yc4zY/">http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/8NrJ41Yc4zY/</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://personal-trainer-career.com">GoPro</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://TACTIXmethod.com">chicago fire</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://fitnesswebgraphics.com">Joan Lunden</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://PersonalTrainerTools.com">The Maze Runner</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://FitnessMarketing.info">Espn Fantasy Football</a> &nbsp; <img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/4a8515179d00fb9e5a11f65776bdd874/200993536/tidal-ipad_thumbnail.jpg"/> You can already check out Deezer Elite if you want high-quality streaming music, but it's only available on Sonos devices. That's not very useful when you're away from home, is it? Thankfully, Aspiro has stepped in to fill that void with a far more...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:wF9xT3WuBAs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:-BTjWOF_DHI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8NrJ41Yc4zY:NfcN-yz_1ks:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/8NrJ41Yc4zY" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/8NrJ41Yc4zY/">http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/8NrJ41Yc4zY/</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://personal-trainer-career.com">GoPro</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://TACTIXmethod.com">chicago fire</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://fitnesswebgraphics.com">Joan Lunden</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://PersonalTrainerTools.com">The Maze Runner</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://FitnessMarketing.info">Espn Fantasy Football</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d01a73dab0f56970d Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-04-15T17:31:23Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d01a73dab0f54970d300 empty desks were placed in the street outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters ehttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-04-15T17:31:23Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<p class="has-media media-640"><img class="transform-com.kinja.core.model.Image$Size$KinjaUncroppedExtraLarge$@5554f0a0" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--43ykWnuz--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb.jpg" width="636" height="297" alt="" data-chomp-id="idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--43ykWnuz--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb.jpg" data-format="jpg" onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb.jpg';" /></p> <p class="first-text"><em>300 empty desks were placed in the street outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters earlier today as part of a protest demanding extra funding for disadvantaged youth. The 300 desks are meant to represent the approximate number of students who drop out of LAUSD every month. [Photo by Richard Vogel/AP</em><em>]</em></p><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/300-empty-desks-were-placed-in-the-street-outside-los-a-1560877930">Read more...</a></p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://gizmodo.feedsportal.com/c/34976/f/647164/s/39237e22/sc/33/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/C2QTSfHeATs" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/C2QTSfHeATs/300-empty-desks-were-placed-in-the-street-outside-los-a-1560877930">http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/C2QTSfHeATs/300-empty-desks-were-placed-in-the-street-outside-los-a-1560877930</a><br />Category: <a href="http://www.connectingbd.org/story.php?title=simple-home-improvement-ideas">David Brenner</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.seotalk4u.com/story.php?title=inspiration-for-house-upgrades">what time is it</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://famebookmarks.com/world-news/safety-elements-to-think-about-when-buying-a-baby-automobile-seat/">neil degrasse tyson</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://techpharmacy.net/story.php?title=home-improvement-ideas-for-every-home">olivia wilde</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.fotonish.com/foto_community/link/17895">DDP Yoga</a> &nbsp; <p class="has-media media-640"><img class="transform-com.kinja.core.model.Image$Size$KinjaUncroppedExtraLarge$@5554f0a0" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--43ykWnuz--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb.jpg" width="636" height="297" alt="" data-chomp-id="idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--43ykWnuz--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb.jpg" data-format="jpg" onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/idxa7v9ruvxvfu38sddb.jpg';" /></p> <p class="first-text"><em>300 empty desks were placed in the street outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters earlier today as part of a protest demanding extra funding for disadvantaged youth. The 300 desks are meant to represent the approximate number of students who drop out of LAUSD every month. [Photo by Richard Vogel/AP</em><em>]</em></p><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/300-empty-desks-were-placed-in-the-street-outside-los-a-1560877930">Read more...</a></p><img width='1' height='1' src='http://gizmodo.feedsportal.com/c/34976/f/647164/s/39237e22/sc/33/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/></a><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/194479928588/u/94/f/647164/c/34976/s/39237e22/sc/33/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/C2QTSfHeATs" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/C2QTSfHeATs/300-empty-desks-were-placed-in-the-street-outside-los-a-1560877930">http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/C2QTSfHeATs/300-empty-desks-were-placed-in-the-street-outside-los-a-1560877930</a><br />Category: <a href="http://www.connectingbd.org/story.php?title=simple-home-improvement-ideas">David Brenner</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.seotalk4u.com/story.php?title=inspiration-for-house-upgrades">what time is it</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://famebookmarks.com/world-news/safety-elements-to-think-about-when-buying-a-baby-automobile-seat/">neil degrasse tyson</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://techpharmacy.net/story.php?title=home-improvement-ideas-for-every-home">olivia wilde</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.fotonish.com/foto_community/link/17895">DDP Yoga</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d01a73daaeb9d970d Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-04-15T16:00:48Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d01a73daaeb9b970dDelta to equip flight attendants with Nokia Lumia 1520shttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-04-15T16:00:48Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/a7136043526ba4541cace2dad124ee69/IMG_9840_thumbnail.jpg"/> The Lumia 820 just reached EOL at Delta. The airline's 20,000 flight attendants will be stepping up to the significantly larger Nokia Lumia 1520 "phablet" come this fall, matching the larger form factor that AA currently has in the sky. The 1520s...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:wF9xT3WuBAs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:-BTjWOF_DHI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/NL8thO3VxPk" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/NL8thO3VxPk/">http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/NL8thO3VxPk/</a><br />Category: <a href="http://stiftung.maintaler.net/wiki/doku.php?id=create_a_vital_strategy_with_these_personal_finance_strategies">Drake Draft Day</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.geth.org.br/wiki/index.php?title=User:acridshield2">Jared Allen</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.rdt.fr/documentation/doku.php?id=develop_a_essential_plan_with_these_personal_finance_strategies">paczki</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.aitasit.org/wiki/doku.php?id=develop_a_vital_program_with_these_individual_finance_methods">olympics</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://hammer.theanvilreview.org/doku.php?id=create_a_vital_strategy_with_these_individual_finance_approaches">Super Bowl 2014</a> &nbsp; <img src="http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/a7136043526ba4541cace2dad124ee69/IMG_9840_thumbnail.jpg"/> The Lumia 820 just reached EOL at Delta. The airline's 20,000 flight attendants will be stepping up to the significantly larger Nokia Lumia 1520 "phablet" come this fall, matching the larger form factor that AA currently has in the sky. The 1520s...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:wF9xT3WuBAs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:-BTjWOF_DHI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?i=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?a=NL8thO3VxPk:Ul9IP7N3ipA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/engadget?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/NL8thO3VxPk" height="1" width="1"/>Source: <a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/NL8thO3VxPk/">http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/NL8thO3VxPk/</a><br />Category: <a href="http://stiftung.maintaler.net/wiki/doku.php?id=create_a_vital_strategy_with_these_personal_finance_strategies">Drake Draft Day</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.geth.org.br/wiki/index.php?title=User:acridshield2">Jared Allen</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.rdt.fr/documentation/doku.php?id=develop_a_essential_plan_with_these_personal_finance_strategies">paczki</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.aitasit.org/wiki/doku.php?id=develop_a_vital_program_with_these_individual_finance_methods">olympics</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://hammer.theanvilreview.org/doku.php?id=create_a_vital_strategy_with_these_individual_finance_approaches">Super Bowl 2014</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d01a73da92e76970d Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-04-14T08:52:53Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d01a73da92e72970dNew and updated apps: Fantastical 2, Flipboard, Byword, and more!http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-04-14T08:52:53Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/new-and-updated-apps-fantastical-2-flipboard-byword-and-more' title="New and updated apps: Fantastical 2, Flipboard, Byword, and more!"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2013/10/fantastical_2_hero.jpg?itok=dxZKb6Jx' /></a></p> <p>Every day dozens and dozens of new and updated apps and games hit the iOS and Mac App Stores. It's impossible to keep up with them all, but it's not impossible to pick out the very best. Here they are! Today we have updates to a calendar app, a news reader, a text editor, and more.</p> <h2>New and updated iOS apps</h2> <ul><li><strong>Fantastical 2</strong>: The alternative calendar for iPhone has made a number of fixes. $4.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fantastical-2-for-iphone-calendar/id718043190?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Flipboard</strong>: The popular news reader now has language support for Turkish, along with some improvements and bug fixes. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-your-social-news/id358801284?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Byword</strong>: This text editor updates to version 2.1.5 with fixes for a couple of issues regarding list creation and text insertion. $4.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/byword/id482063361?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Facebook Messenger</strong>: Version 4.0 of Facebook's messaging app brings support for groups and message forwarding, along with continued reliability improvements. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-messenger/id454638411?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Mailbox</strong>: Alternative email app Mailbox updates to version 1.7.5 with fixes for badge count and push notification issues. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailbox/id576502633?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Due</strong>: This update to the reminders app fixes several bugs and adds three themes, Light, Light with Avenir, and Dark with Avenir. $4.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/due-super-fast-reminders-reusable/id390017969?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Shazam Encore:</strong> Popular music tagging service. Whole new track page design, Rdio integration with the ability to add tracks to any of your playlists, and much more. $6.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shazam-encore/id337288863?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>VSCO Cam:</strong> Camera editing and gallery app for iPhone. You can now show/hide presets, tools, and follow curated grids — more. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vsco-cam/id588013838?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Yahoo Weather:</strong> Weather app for iOS. Added precipitation forecast to 5 and 10 day forecast views. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-weather/id628677149?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Moves:</strong> Step and active tracker for iPhone. General bug fixes and reliability improvements. $2.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moves/id509204969?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> </ul><h2>More apps and updates?</h2> <p>If you try any of the apps or updates, let me know how they work for you. 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It's impossible to keep up with them all, but it's not impossible to pick out the very best. Here they are! Today we have updates to a calendar app, a news reader, a text editor, and more.</p> <h2>New and updated iOS apps</h2> <ul><li><strong>Fantastical 2</strong>: The alternative calendar for iPhone has made a number of fixes. $4.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fantastical-2-for-iphone-calendar/id718043190?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Flipboard</strong>: The popular news reader now has language support for Turkish, along with some improvements and bug fixes. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-your-social-news/id358801284?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Byword</strong>: This text editor updates to version 2.1.5 with fixes for a couple of issues regarding list creation and text insertion. $4.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/byword/id482063361?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Facebook Messenger</strong>: Version 4.0 of Facebook's messaging app brings support for groups and message forwarding, along with continued reliability improvements. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook-messenger/id454638411?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Mailbox</strong>: Alternative email app Mailbox updates to version 1.7.5 with fixes for badge count and push notification issues. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailbox/id576502633?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Due</strong>: This update to the reminders app fixes several bugs and adds three themes, Light, Light with Avenir, and Dark with Avenir. $4.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/due-super-fast-reminders-reusable/id390017969?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Shazam Encore:</strong> Popular music tagging service. Whole new track page design, Rdio integration with the ability to add tracks to any of your playlists, and much more. $6.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shazam-encore/id337288863?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>VSCO Cam:</strong> Camera editing and gallery app for iPhone. You can now show/hide presets, tools, and follow curated grids — more. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vsco-cam/id588013838?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Yahoo Weather:</strong> Weather app for iOS. Added precipitation forecast to 5 and 10 day forecast views. Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-weather/id628677149?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> <li><strong>Moves:</strong> Step and active tracker for iPhone. General bug fixes and reliability improvements. $2.99 - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moves/id509204969?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download Now</a></li> </ul><h2>More apps and updates?</h2> <p>If you try any of the apps or updates, let me know how they work for you. 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Duke's entry this week revealed something shocking about coach and UFC women's bantamweight champion <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ufc-ronda-rousey-says-she-could-beat-heavyweight-171849440--mma.html" target="_self">Ronda Rousey</a>.</p> <p>Semi-finalists Anthony Gutierrez and David Grant never got to fight one another as scheduled on Wednesday's episode because Gutierrez did not make weight. After weighing in four pounds heavy the day before their scheduled fight, Gutierrez had another hour to make weight but chose not to try to do so.</p> <p>As a result, he forfeited the fight and was kicked out of the TUF house. Rousey was the coach for both Gutierrez and Grant. The episode showed her talking with UFC president Dana White after Gutierrez was kicked out and telling the promoter that she herself was going to cut weight because she felt bad that she didn't guide Anthony through successfully.</p> <p>The editing made it appear as if White talked her out of doing so. In an apparently entirely different part of the week, the episode showed Rousey beating opposing coach <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mma--miesha-tate-ronda-rousey-womens-mma-champion-210450557.html" target="_self">Miesha Tate</a> in a wall-climbing challenge.</p> <p>Jessamyn's blog entry this week reveals that Rousey did indeed go through with cutting weight to demonstrate to the fighters what is possible through strength of will, and she won the wall-climbing challenge while in the midst of that extreme weight cut.</p> <blockquote><p>[Rousey] jumped on the scale after Anthony missed weight and was 152 pounds. Without any sort of prep (diet, water loading, sodium loading/cutting, etc.) jumped in the sauna and was in there for FIVE hours before it was time to go to the coaches challenge. Yes, Ronda Rousey cut weight in the sauna for five hours, went to a rock climbing challenge, won, and then went BACK to the sauna that night and cut some more.</p> <p>The next day when it was time for Jessica and Raquel to fight, she was at the gym before anyone else arrived and was back in the sauna cutting weight. When the rest of us arrived she was sitting at 136 pounds in the locker room. I watched her warm upRakoczy for her fight while on weight and then step on the scale in front of Dana and be 135 pounds. She did this to prove a point.</p></blockquote> <p>Wow.</p> <p>Hopefully next week's episode will shine some light on that extraordinary occurrence as it is surely worth highlighting with actual air-time. Rousey is certainly a bundle of emotions and displayed that during this season of TUF but no one can say that the champion isn't willing to back up her words and outbursts.</p> <p>Rousey defends her title December 28th against Tate. Chris Weidman also defends his middleweight strap against former champ Anderson Silva on the same card.</p> <p><em>Follow Elias on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/eliascepeda" target="_blank">@EliasCepeda</a></em></p> Source: <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ronda-rousey-cut-17-pounds-one-day-prove-214523472--mma.html">http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ronda-rousey-cut-17-pounds-one-day-prove-214523472--mma.html</a><br />Category: <a href="http://aci.aci.org.jo/development/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=593216">1D day</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://smartweb-eg.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1374392629/0#0">brittany murphy</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://smartweb-eg.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1374393777/0#0">sofia vergara</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.ane.gov.co/index.php/foro/4-plan-para-la-participacion-ciudadana/757880-see-more-spy-cameras-wireless-for-home.html#757880">Apple.com</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://ricklyon.com/forums/index.php?topic=843850.new#new">david wilson</a> &nbsp; <p><img src="http://l.yimg.com/os/en/blogs/sptusmmaexperts/RouseyHands-up.jpg" align="right" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-25610" title="Ronda Rousey (AP)" alt="" width="600" height="451"/ ></p> <p>The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 18 cast member <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1859469-tuf-18-jessamyn-duke-fighter-blog-episode-12" target="_blank">Jessamyn Duke has kept a blog</a> throughout the season. Duke's entry this week revealed something shocking about coach and UFC women's bantamweight champion <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ufc-ronda-rousey-says-she-could-beat-heavyweight-171849440--mma.html" target="_self">Ronda Rousey</a>.</p> <p>Semi-finalists Anthony Gutierrez and David Grant never got to fight one another as scheduled on Wednesday's episode because Gutierrez did not make weight. After weighing in four pounds heavy the day before their scheduled fight, Gutierrez had another hour to make weight but chose not to try to do so.</p> <p>As a result, he forfeited the fight and was kicked out of the TUF house. Rousey was the coach for both Gutierrez and Grant. The episode showed her talking with UFC president Dana White after Gutierrez was kicked out and telling the promoter that she herself was going to cut weight because she felt bad that she didn't guide Anthony through successfully.</p> <p>The editing made it appear as if White talked her out of doing so. In an apparently entirely different part of the week, the episode showed Rousey beating opposing coach <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mma--miesha-tate-ronda-rousey-womens-mma-champion-210450557.html" target="_self">Miesha Tate</a> in a wall-climbing challenge.</p> <p>Jessamyn's blog entry this week reveals that Rousey did indeed go through with cutting weight to demonstrate to the fighters what is possible through strength of will, and she won the wall-climbing challenge while in the midst of that extreme weight cut.</p> <blockquote><p>[Rousey] jumped on the scale after Anthony missed weight and was 152 pounds. Without any sort of prep (diet, water loading, sodium loading/cutting, etc.) jumped in the sauna and was in there for FIVE hours before it was time to go to the coaches challenge. Yes, Ronda Rousey cut weight in the sauna for five hours, went to a rock climbing challenge, won, and then went BACK to the sauna that night and cut some more.</p> <p>The next day when it was time for Jessica and Raquel to fight, she was at the gym before anyone else arrived and was back in the sauna cutting weight. When the rest of us arrived she was sitting at 136 pounds in the locker room. I watched her warm upRakoczy for her fight while on weight and then step on the scale in front of Dana and be 135 pounds. She did this to prove a point.</p></blockquote> <p>Wow.</p> <p>Hopefully next week's episode will shine some light on that extraordinary occurrence as it is surely worth highlighting with actual air-time. Rousey is certainly a bundle of emotions and displayed that during this season of TUF but no one can say that the champion isn't willing to back up her words and outbursts.</p> <p>Rousey defends her title December 28th against Tate. Chris Weidman also defends his middleweight strap against former champ Anderson Silva on the same card.</p> <p><em>Follow Elias on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/eliascepeda" target="_blank">@EliasCepeda</a></em></p> Source: <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ronda-rousey-cut-17-pounds-one-day-prove-214523472--mma.html">http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ronda-rousey-cut-17-pounds-one-day-prove-214523472--mma.html</a><br />Category: <a href="http://aci.aci.org.jo/development/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=593216">1D day</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://smartweb-eg.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1374392629/0#0">brittany murphy</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://smartweb-eg.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1374393777/0#0">sofia vergara</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.ane.gov.co/index.php/foro/4-plan-para-la-participacion-ciudadana/757880-see-more-spy-cameras-wireless-for-home.html#757880">Apple.com</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://ricklyon.com/forums/index.php?topic=843850.new#new">david wilson</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b0141e6ac970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-11-18T02:20:37Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b0141e6aa970cSnapchat to Facebook: $3 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool?http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-11-18T02:20:37Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div itemprop="articleBody" readability="67.9343544858"> <div id="blog-edit" class="c5"><img src="http://www.infoworld.com/sites/infoworld.com/files/media/image/cash_case.jpg" alt="Snapchat to Facebook: $3 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool?" width="243" height="182" align="right"/><p class="c4"><em>Credit: Ireneusz Skorupa</em></p> </div> <p>Here's a hypothetical for you. Let's say you're a smart, plugged-in 20-something entrepreneur. You've come up with an idea for an app that proves insanely popular, though you have yet to figure out how to collect any money for it. This business is dependent entirely on the momentary whims of teenagers, many of whom may be breaking the law by using it.</p> <p>Some guy comes up to you driving a Brink's truck filled with greenbacks. He offers you $3 billion on the spot, in cash, for your company.</p> <p><strong>[ Also on InfoWorld: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/123051/10-signs-the-dot-com-tech-bubble-back-228523?source=fssr">10 signs the dot-com tech bubble is back</a>. | For a humorous take on the tech industry's shenanigans, subscribe to <a href="http://infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_cringely&amp;source=ifwelg_fssr">Robert X. Cringely's Notes from the Underground newsletter</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ifw_cringely" target="_blank">follow Cringely on Twitter</a>. | Check out <a href="http://infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_techbrief&amp;source=ifwelg_fssr">InfoWorld TechBrief</a>, your source for quick, smart views on the news you'll be talking about -- subscribe today. ]</strong></p> <p>Do you:</p> <p>A) Look behind him for the guys in the white coats with the nets</p> <p>B) Take the money, buy your own island, and stock it with supermodels</p> <p>C) See if Google will make you a better offer</p> <p>D) Say, "Meh, I think I'll pass"</p> <p>If you're 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat -- or you're out of your flippin' mind -- you choose options C and/or D. Why? That is the $3 billion question, or possibly the $4 billion one, if the rumors about Google's counteroffer are to be believed.</p> <p><strong>Sexts and the single URL</strong><br/>Snapchat is based on a very simple premise: You can take any kind of naughty photo you want, send it to any other Snapchat user, and have the thing go poof within 10 seconds. No harm, no foul, and no incriminating evidence are left behind.</p> <p>Nearly <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/10/28/pew-study-suggests-snapchat-has-26-million-u-s-users/" target="_blank">one out of every 10 U.S. cellphone users</a> has installed Snapchat, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey, 95 percent of them under the age of 29. It's a concept so appealing to a certain demographic that an <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57602049-93/snapchat-rivals-facebook-in-photos-with-350m-snaps-per-day/" target="_blank">alleged 350 million Snapchats</a> are sent each day. That's a lot of self-destructing selfies.</p> <p>The problem? A large percentage of those narcissistic shutterbugs are under the age of 18 -- which makes Snapchat a big, fat target for law enforcement agencies trying to combat kiddie porn. The service has already published <a href="http://publicintelligence.net/snapchat-law-enforcement-guide/" target="_blank">a guide telling police what they need to do</a> to get their hands on Snapchat user data. Last month, Snapchat admitted it <a href="http://blog.snapchat.com/post/64036804085/who-can-view-my-snaps-and-stories" target="_blank">has passed on "about a dozen" photos</a> to the feds. That "about a dozen" number is likely to zoom upward very soon, I suspect.</p> <p>Also, that bit about Snapchats quickly disappearing? Not so much. The service recently unveiled Stories, a feature that makes Snapchat sessions available for up to 24 hours. Even the quickly disappearing kind can be captured by someone with fast enough fingers, as evidenced by any Google search for nude Snapchat pix. (Or so I've heard.)</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://images.infoworld.com/t/cringely/snapchat-facebook-3-billion-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-230975?source=rss_applications">http://images.infoworld.com/t/cringely/snapchat-facebook-3-billion-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-230975?source=rss_applications</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://moodle.iesvirgendelaluz.es/user/view.php?id=7708&amp;course=1">Time</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://humedalesbogota.com/aulavirtual/user/view.php?id=11043&course=1">Giraffe Riddle Answer</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://aminhaescola.net/moodle/user/view.php?id=131345&course=1">ny giants</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.sigeca.cl/moodle/user/view.php?id=239122&amp;course=1">revenge</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.epsantarem.com/moodle/user/view.php?id=103990&course=1">george zimmerman</a> &nbsp; <div itemprop="articleBody" readability="67.9343544858"> <div id="blog-edit" class="c5"><img src="http://www.infoworld.com/sites/infoworld.com/files/media/image/cash_case.jpg" alt="Snapchat to Facebook: $3 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool?" width="243" height="182" align="right"/><p class="c4"><em>Credit: Ireneusz Skorupa</em></p> </div> <p>Here's a hypothetical for you. Let's say you're a smart, plugged-in 20-something entrepreneur. You've come up with an idea for an app that proves insanely popular, though you have yet to figure out how to collect any money for it. This business is dependent entirely on the momentary whims of teenagers, many of whom may be breaking the law by using it.</p> <p>Some guy comes up to you driving a Brink's truck filled with greenbacks. He offers you $3 billion on the spot, in cash, for your company.</p> <p><strong>[ Also on InfoWorld: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/123051/10-signs-the-dot-com-tech-bubble-back-228523?source=fssr">10 signs the dot-com tech bubble is back</a>. | For a humorous take on the tech industry's shenanigans, subscribe to <a href="http://infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_cringely&amp;source=ifwelg_fssr">Robert X. Cringely's Notes from the Underground newsletter</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ifw_cringely" target="_blank">follow Cringely on Twitter</a>. | Check out <a href="http://infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_techbrief&amp;source=ifwelg_fssr">InfoWorld TechBrief</a>, your source for quick, smart views on the news you'll be talking about -- subscribe today. ]</strong></p> <p>Do you:</p> <p>A) Look behind him for the guys in the white coats with the nets</p> <p>B) Take the money, buy your own island, and stock it with supermodels</p> <p>C) See if Google will make you a better offer</p> <p>D) Say, "Meh, I think I'll pass"</p> <p>If you're 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat -- or you're out of your flippin' mind -- you choose options C and/or D. Why? That is the $3 billion question, or possibly the $4 billion one, if the rumors about Google's counteroffer are to be believed.</p> <p><strong>Sexts and the single URL</strong><br/>Snapchat is based on a very simple premise: You can take any kind of naughty photo you want, send it to any other Snapchat user, and have the thing go poof within 10 seconds. No harm, no foul, and no incriminating evidence are left behind.</p> <p>Nearly <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2013/10/28/pew-study-suggests-snapchat-has-26-million-u-s-users/" target="_blank">one out of every 10 U.S. cellphone users</a> has installed Snapchat, according to the latest Pew Research Center survey, 95 percent of them under the age of 29. It's a concept so appealing to a certain demographic that an <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57602049-93/snapchat-rivals-facebook-in-photos-with-350m-snaps-per-day/" target="_blank">alleged 350 million Snapchats</a> are sent each day. That's a lot of self-destructing selfies.</p> <p>The problem? A large percentage of those narcissistic shutterbugs are under the age of 18 -- which makes Snapchat a big, fat target for law enforcement agencies trying to combat kiddie porn. The service has already published <a href="http://publicintelligence.net/snapchat-law-enforcement-guide/" target="_blank">a guide telling police what they need to do</a> to get their hands on Snapchat user data. Last month, Snapchat admitted it <a href="http://blog.snapchat.com/post/64036804085/who-can-view-my-snaps-and-stories" target="_blank">has passed on "about a dozen" photos</a> to the feds. That "about a dozen" number is likely to zoom upward very soon, I suspect.</p> <p>Also, that bit about Snapchats quickly disappearing? Not so much. The service recently unveiled Stories, a feature that makes Snapchat sessions available for up to 24 hours. Even the quickly disappearing kind can be captured by someone with fast enough fingers, as evidenced by any Google search for nude Snapchat pix. (Or so I've heard.)</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://images.infoworld.com/t/cringely/snapchat-facebook-3-billion-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-230975?source=rss_applications">http://images.infoworld.com/t/cringely/snapchat-facebook-3-billion-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-230975?source=rss_applications</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://moodle.iesvirgendelaluz.es/user/view.php?id=7708&amp;course=1">Time</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://humedalesbogota.com/aulavirtual/user/view.php?id=11043&course=1">Giraffe Riddle Answer</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://aminhaescola.net/moodle/user/view.php?id=131345&course=1">ny giants</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.sigeca.cl/moodle/user/view.php?id=239122&amp;course=1">revenge</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.epsantarem.com/moodle/user/view.php?id=103990&course=1">george zimmerman</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b011664cd970d Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-11-14T20:35:38Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b011664c8970dThe secret to troubleshooting performance problemshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-11-14T20:35:38Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div readability="39.9269782262"> <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/blogs"/> <p>November 12, 2013</p> <div itemprop="articleBody" readability="24.8136882129"> <p>In my years in IT, I've seen ridiculous actions taken in the name of improving performance. I've seen hundreds of high-end thin clients sporting more horsepower than a typical PC deployed simply to run a remote desktop client. I've seen a whole blade chassis's worth of servers deployed to do the work of a single server. I've seen video cards designed for gaming installed in desktops to make a line-of-business application work better.</p> <p>In most of these cases and others like them, unquestionably wasteful decisions were made because of a pervasive fear of one of the worst types of user complaints an IT pro can hear: "It's slow." Those two words issued from the right lips into the right ears can touch off a political disaster that often ends with a pile of wasted time and money. Many times, simply being seen to take any action at all -- regardless of whether it helps -- is more valued than the frequently painstaking process of figuring out what the problem really is (and indeed whether there even is one in the first place).</p> <p>The real challenge for IT pros faced with a high-profile performance complaint is to quickly and decisively determine where the problem may lie before wasteful measures that serve only to distract from the real issue are forced down our throats. This almost always requires the right tools to be in place ahead of the complaint being made, great communications skills, and in the worst cases, the intellectual curiosity to dig into the weeds in search of a smoking gun.</p> <a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?1384453694" id="insider_action"/> <h4><a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?1384453694" id="insider_action">To continue reading, register here to become an Insider</a></h4> <h5><a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?1384453694" id="insider_action">It's FREE to join</a></h5> </div> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?source=rss_applications">http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?source=rss_applications</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/what-you-can-do-to-succeed-at-article-writing/">Sephora</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-a-domain-for-sale-that-is-the-question/">Jimmy Graham</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/an-overview-of-affiliate-cash-snipers-the-good-way-to-profitable-blogging/">channing tatum</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/a-review-of-real-world-traffic-is-it-worth-buying/">once upon a time</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/getting-started-with-website-traffic-generation/">Government Shutdown 2013</a> &nbsp; <div readability="39.9269782262"> <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/blogs"/> <p>November 12, 2013</p> <div itemprop="articleBody" readability="24.8136882129"> <p>In my years in IT, I've seen ridiculous actions taken in the name of improving performance. I've seen hundreds of high-end thin clients sporting more horsepower than a typical PC deployed simply to run a remote desktop client. I've seen a whole blade chassis's worth of servers deployed to do the work of a single server. I've seen video cards designed for gaming installed in desktops to make a line-of-business application work better.</p> <p>In most of these cases and others like them, unquestionably wasteful decisions were made because of a pervasive fear of one of the worst types of user complaints an IT pro can hear: "It's slow." Those two words issued from the right lips into the right ears can touch off a political disaster that often ends with a pile of wasted time and money. Many times, simply being seen to take any action at all -- regardless of whether it helps -- is more valued than the frequently painstaking process of figuring out what the problem really is (and indeed whether there even is one in the first place).</p> <p>The real challenge for IT pros faced with a high-profile performance complaint is to quickly and decisively determine where the problem may lie before wasteful measures that serve only to distract from the real issue are forced down our throats. This almost always requires the right tools to be in place ahead of the complaint being made, great communications skills, and in the worst cases, the intellectual curiosity to dig into the weeds in search of a smoking gun.</p> <a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?1384453694" id="insider_action"/> <h4><a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?1384453694" id="insider_action">To continue reading, register here to become an Insider</a></h4> <h5><a href="http://reg.idgenterprise.com/insider.html?url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?1384453694" id="insider_action">It's FREE to join</a></h5> </div> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?source=rss_applications">http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/the-secret-troubleshooting-performance-problems-230610?source=rss_applications</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/what-you-can-do-to-succeed-at-article-writing/">Sephora</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-a-domain-for-sale-that-is-the-question/">Jimmy Graham</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/an-overview-of-affiliate-cash-snipers-the-good-way-to-profitable-blogging/">channing tatum</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/a-review-of-real-world-traffic-is-it-worth-buying/">once upon a time</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://trafficrocketblog.com/getting-started-with-website-traffic-generation/">Government Shutdown 2013</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b00f3c656970b Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-11-11T20:53:51Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b00f3c652970bSurprise! Java is fastest for server-side Web appshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-11-11T20:53:51Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div readability="43.7620449679"><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/blogs/infoworld-tech-watch"/> <p>November 11, 2013</p> <div itemprop="articleBody" readability="37.0295783512"> <p>Looks like Oracle's continued push for Java everywhere, from the "Internet of things" on down, isn't just based on hype. At least one set of numbers puts Java's performance head and shoulders above the competition for server-side Web frameworks. <span class="c5">But is performance alone enough to win over the non-Java faithful?</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/28/frameworks-round-1/" target="_blank">Since March 2013</a>, software development firm <a href="http://www.techempower.com/" target="_blank">TechEmpower</a> has been running an ongoing series of performance benchmarks for dozens of popular Web application <span>server</span><span> </span><span>frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails or Django. Each successive round of tests has benefited from community feedback, with the benchmarks themselves</span> <a href="https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks" target="_blank">released as open source on Github</a><span>. Those interested in having their own frameworks benchmarked can fork the code,</span> <a href="http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code" target="_blank">add their own tests</a><span>, and submit the results.</span></p> <p>When the <a href="http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/10/31/framework-benchmarks-round-7/" target="_blank">seventh round</a> of TechEmpower benchmarking concluded at the end of October -- with 84 frameworks and some 200 different test permutations -- the dust settled to reveal that many of the frameworks that performed best across the board were Java-based. Four frameworks in particular stand out: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/gemini/" target="_blank">Gemini</a>, <a href="https://grizzly.java.net/" target="_blank">Grizzly</a> (created to allow easy use of Java's New I/O API), <a href="https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow" target="_blank">Undertow</a>, and <a href="http://vertx.io/" target="_blank">Vertx</a>.</p> <p>What's most striking is how many of the frameworks that are more well known -- such as Sinatra for Ruby, various ASP.Net frameworks, and the aforementioned Django for Python -- had performance that ranked sometimes orders of magnitude below the big winners. The new kid on the block, Node.js, did exhibit impressive performance, but still only clocked one-fourth to one-third the performance of the fastest contenders.</p> </div> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/surprise-java-fastest-server-side-web-apps-230565">http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/surprise-java-fastest-server-side-web-apps-230565</a><br />Category: <a href="http://fly86humor.wordpressy.pl/?p=17">jennifer nettles</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://gong40jaguar.skyrock.com/3193186357-Just-What-Are-Thee-Flexi-fuel-Logos-I-Am-Seeing-On-Brand-name-New-Cars.html">jay cutler</a> &nbsp; <a href="https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#st=p&n=71eccfa3-4947-47bc-aaa4-5dfe9213e49d">Million Mask March</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/add-redirect/">Beyond Two Souls</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://carhireportugal.org">obama speech</a> &nbsp; <div readability="43.7620449679"><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/blogs/infoworld-tech-watch"/> <p>November 11, 2013</p> <div itemprop="articleBody" readability="37.0295783512"> <p>Looks like Oracle's continued push for Java everywhere, from the "Internet of things" on down, isn't just based on hype. At least one set of numbers puts Java's performance head and shoulders above the competition for server-side Web frameworks. <span class="c5">But is performance alone enough to win over the non-Java faithful?</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/28/frameworks-round-1/" target="_blank">Since March 2013</a>, software development firm <a href="http://www.techempower.com/" target="_blank">TechEmpower</a> has been running an ongoing series of performance benchmarks for dozens of popular Web application <span>server</span><span> </span><span>frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails or Django. Each successive round of tests has benefited from community feedback, with the benchmarks themselves</span> <a href="https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks" target="_blank">released as open source on Github</a><span>. Those interested in having their own frameworks benchmarked can fork the code,</span> <a href="http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code" target="_blank">add their own tests</a><span>, and submit the results.</span></p> <p>When the <a href="http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/10/31/framework-benchmarks-round-7/" target="_blank">seventh round</a> of TechEmpower benchmarking concluded at the end of October -- with 84 frameworks and some 200 different test permutations -- the dust settled to reveal that many of the frameworks that performed best across the board were Java-based. Four frameworks in particular stand out: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/gemini/" target="_blank">Gemini</a>, <a href="https://grizzly.java.net/" target="_blank">Grizzly</a> (created to allow easy use of Java's New I/O API), <a href="https://github.com/undertow-io/undertow" target="_blank">Undertow</a>, and <a href="http://vertx.io/" target="_blank">Vertx</a>.</p> <p>What's most striking is how many of the frameworks that are more well known -- such as Sinatra for Ruby, various ASP.Net frameworks, and the aforementioned Django for Python -- had performance that ranked sometimes orders of magnitude below the big winners. The new kid on the block, Node.js, did exhibit impressive performance, but still only clocked one-fourth to one-third the performance of the fastest contenders.</p> </div> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/surprise-java-fastest-server-side-web-apps-230565">http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/surprise-java-fastest-server-side-web-apps-230565</a><br />Category: <a href="http://fly86humor.wordpressy.pl/?p=17">jennifer nettles</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://gong40jaguar.skyrock.com/3193186357-Just-What-Are-Thee-Flexi-fuel-Logos-I-Am-Seeing-On-Brand-name-New-Cars.html">jay cutler</a> &nbsp; <a href="https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#st=p&n=71eccfa3-4947-47bc-aaa4-5dfe9213e49d">Million Mask March</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/add-redirect/">Beyond Two Souls</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://carhireportugal.org">obama speech</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b00d0d6e6970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-11-08T15:10:40Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b00d0d6e3970cEdited RNA + invasive DNA add individualityhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-11-08T15:10:40Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<head><title>Edited RNA + invasive DNA add individuality</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="A study in Nature Communications finds that an enzyme that edits RNA may loosen the genome's control over invasive snippets of DNA that affect how genes are expressed. In fruit flies, that newly understood mechanism appears to contribute to differences among individuals such as eye color and life span."/><meta name="keywords" content="Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology Medicine/Health Developmental/Reproductive Biology Gerontology Aging"/><meta name="date" content="Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content="NIH/National Institute on Aging, Ellison Medical Foundation"/><meta name="journal" content="Nature Communications"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Brown University"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="165.342937676"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>8-Nov-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: David Orenstein<br/>david_orenstein@brown.edu<br/>401-863-1862<br/><span class="relinst">Brown University</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle"/> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The story of why we are all so different goes well beyond the endless mixing and matching of DNA through breeding. A new study in the journal <i>Nature Communications</i>, for instance, reports a new molecular mechanism of individual variation found in fruit flies that uses components operating in a wide variety of species, including humans.</p>&#13; <p>The new mechanism is based in a surprising genetic oddity. Nearly all genomes those of humans, fruit flies, and even corn and rice are constantly grappling with parasitic snippets of genetic material called "transposons." These snippets copy themselves, move around, and embed themselves within DNA. If left unchecked, transposons can alter how genetic instructions are carried out in the body,usually for the worse, sometimes for the better. But genomes don't leave transposons unchecked. They "look" for tell-tale double-stranded RNA associated with the transposons, chop the strands up and use the pieces to "silence" the invaders.</p>&#13; <p>In the new paper, scientists show that an enzyme called ADAR, which edits RNA in humans, flies, and many other creatures, edits double-stranded RNAs. This loosens the system that keeps "Hoppel" transposons silenced in fruit flies. When transposons are silenced, it's done by keeping them locked tight around tiny balls of material called chromatin.</p>&#13; <p>Since the amount of ADAR varies from one individual to the next, the amount of jailbreaking from those chromatin prison varies too, and that should lead to altered gene expression. After showing that an abundance of ADAR reduces silencing of a common transposon in the flies and that a lack of ADAR meant widespread silencing the researchers measured two consequences of different levels of ADAR activity: a 20-percent difference in life span and difference in eye color (red rather than white).</p>&#13; <p>The study was focused on fruit flies, ADAR, and the double-stranded RNA of the Hoppel transposon, but the ability of RNA editors to loosen the silencing of at least some transposons may be a source of individual variation in humans and other species too, said Brown University biologist Robert Reenan, senior author of the new study published online. Editing of double-stranded RNA or a lack of editing has already been linked to diseases in people, including amyloid lateral sclerosis and, specifically in the case of ADAR, Aicardi-Goutires syndrome.</p>&#13; <p>"ADAR in humans functions the same way it does in flies, and double-stranded RNAs are made in humans the same way," said Reenan, professor of biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. "They are all generic, off the shelf staples of the biological toolkit. This is not anything that is particular to flies."</p>&#13; <b/><p>Picking the double strand</p>&#13; <p>Many of Reenan's studies focus on ADAR's editing activity in the development of the nervous system, but this investigation began years ago when lead author and then graduate student Yiannis Savva happened to overexpress ADAR in fruit fly salivary gland cells. He found some bound in an unexpected place: one specific site on chromosome four.</p>&#13; <p>Reenan recalled: "I told him that's either an artifact or it will be the centerpiece of your thesis."</p>&#13; <p>Various tests revealed that the chromosome four site was a home for several Hoppel transposons making a double-stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and Reenan were curious about what business ADAR had with the transposon. A series of experiments in ensuing years did just that. They relocated the transposons to places where they weren't and found that ADAR followed. They deleted the double-stranded RNA from chromosome four and found that ADAR was no longer there. They identified specific editing sites and signs of editing on the double stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and his collaborators then measured silencing of tranposons with varying levels of ADAR and found that the more ADAR there was, the less silencing there was.</p>&#13; <p>Then, working with Stephen Helfand, an expert on the biology of aging, they noticed that a reduction of editing increases life span.</p>&#13; <p>"As a loss of silencing has been associated with aging in <i>Drosophila</i> and other organisms, we performed lifespan analyses on [low-ADAR] adults and wild-type controls and found a ~20-percent increase in the median life span of [low-ADAR] males and females," the authors wrote in <i>Nature Communications</i>.</p>&#13; <b/><p>Look in their eyes</p>&#13; <p>Later they looked at eye color, using natural (wild-type) flies and those where ADAR activity was either artificially hamstrung or excessively active. The natural flies have eyes that run a full continuum from red to white with various "variegating" blends in between that reflect the silencing state of their eye color gene. In the excessively ADAR-active flies there was little silencing and eyes turned out red much more often than normal. In the ADAR-hamstrug flies, virtually all of the eyes were white (reflecting a lot of silencing of the red color gene).</p>&#13; <p>Ultimately, Savva said, ADAR appears to be allowing transposons like Hoppel to exercise their capacity to regulate gene expression, even though they are really just uninvited guests in the genome.</p>&#13; <p>"What ADAR does is fine tune this regulatory network," Savva said. "In cells where you have ADAR, the network is activated. In cells where you don't it's silenced. It provides dynamicity."</p>&#13; <p>In other words, some of the differences among us may be apparent in the eyes of flies.</p><p>###</p>&#13; <p>In addition to Savva, Reenan, and Helfand, authors on the paper are James Jepson, Yoah-Jen Chang, Rachel Whitaker, Brian Jones, Nian Jiang, and Guyu Du of Brown; Georges St. Laurent of Brown and the St. Laurent Institute; and Michael Tackett and Phillipp Kapranov of the St. Laurent Institute.</p>&#13; <p>The National Institute on Aging (grants: AG16667, AG24353, AG25277) and the Ellison Medial Foundation funded the research.&#13; </p>&#13; &#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body><html readability="70.3769051322"><head><title>Edited RNA + invasive DNA add individuality</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="A study in Nature Communications finds that an enzyme that edits RNA may loosen the genome's control over invasive snippets of DNA that affect how genes are expressed. In fruit flies, that newly understood mechanism appears to contribute to differences among individuals such as eye color and life span."/><meta name="keywords" content="Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology Medicine/Health Developmental/Reproductive Biology Gerontology Aging"/><meta name="date" content="Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content="NIH/National Institute on Aging, Ellison Medical Foundation"/><meta name="journal" content="Nature Communications"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Brown University"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="165.342937676"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>8-Nov-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: David Orenstein<br/>david_orenstein@brown.edu<br/>401-863-1862<br/><span class="relinst">Brown University</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle"/> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The story of why we are all so different goes well beyond the endless mixing and matching of DNA through breeding. A new study in the journal <i>Nature Communications</i>, for instance, reports a new molecular mechanism of individual variation found in fruit flies that uses components operating in a wide variety of species, including humans.</p>&#13; <p>The new mechanism is based in a surprising genetic oddity. Nearly all genomes those of humans, fruit flies, and even corn and rice are constantly grappling with parasitic snippets of genetic material called "transposons." These snippets copy themselves, move around, and embed themselves within DNA. If left unchecked, transposons can alter how genetic instructions are carried out in the body,usually for the worse, sometimes for the better. But genomes don't leave transposons unchecked. They "look" for tell-tale double-stranded RNA associated with the transposons, chop the strands up and use the pieces to "silence" the invaders.</p>&#13; <p>In the new paper, scientists show that an enzyme called ADAR, which edits RNA in humans, flies, and many other creatures, edits double-stranded RNAs. This loosens the system that keeps "Hoppel" transposons silenced in fruit flies. When transposons are silenced, it's done by keeping them locked tight around tiny balls of material called chromatin.</p>&#13; <p>Since the amount of ADAR varies from one individual to the next, the amount of jailbreaking from those chromatin prison varies too, and that should lead to altered gene expression. After showing that an abundance of ADAR reduces silencing of a common transposon in the flies and that a lack of ADAR meant widespread silencing the researchers measured two consequences of different levels of ADAR activity: a 20-percent difference in life span and difference in eye color (red rather than white).</p>&#13; <p>The study was focused on fruit flies, ADAR, and the double-stranded RNA of the Hoppel transposon, but the ability of RNA editors to loosen the silencing of at least some transposons may be a source of individual variation in humans and other species too, said Brown University biologist Robert Reenan, senior author of the new study published online. Editing of double-stranded RNA or a lack of editing has already been linked to diseases in people, including amyloid lateral sclerosis and, specifically in the case of ADAR, Aicardi-Goutires syndrome.</p>&#13; <p>"ADAR in humans functions the same way it does in flies, and double-stranded RNAs are made in humans the same way," said Reenan, professor of biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. "They are all generic, off the shelf staples of the biological toolkit. This is not anything that is particular to flies."</p>&#13; <b/><p>Picking the double strand</p>&#13; <p>Many of Reenan's studies focus on ADAR's editing activity in the development of the nervous system, but this investigation began years ago when lead author and then graduate student Yiannis Savva happened to overexpress ADAR in fruit fly salivary gland cells. He found some bound in an unexpected place: one specific site on chromosome four.</p>&#13; <p>Reenan recalled: "I told him that's either an artifact or it will be the centerpiece of your thesis."</p>&#13; <p>Various tests revealed that the chromosome four site was a home for several Hoppel transposons making a double-stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and Reenan were curious about what business ADAR had with the transposon. A series of experiments in ensuing years did just that. They relocated the transposons to places where they weren't and found that ADAR followed. They deleted the double-stranded RNA from chromosome four and found that ADAR was no longer there. They identified specific editing sites and signs of editing on the double stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and his collaborators then measured silencing of tranposons with varying levels of ADAR and found that the more ADAR there was, the less silencing there was.</p>&#13; <p>Then, working with Stephen Helfand, an expert on the biology of aging, they noticed that a reduction of editing increases life span.</p>&#13; <p>"As a loss of silencing has been associated with aging in <i>Drosophila</i> and other organisms, we performed lifespan analyses on [low-ADAR] adults and wild-type controls and found a ~20-percent increase in the median life span of [low-ADAR] males and females," the authors wrote in <i>Nature Communications</i>.</p>&#13; <b/><p>Look in their eyes</p>&#13; <p>Later they looked at eye color, using natural (wild-type) flies and those where ADAR activity was either artificially hamstrung or excessively active. The natural flies have eyes that run a full continuum from red to white with various "variegating" blends in between that reflect the silencing state of their eye color gene. In the excessively ADAR-active flies there was little silencing and eyes turned out red much more often than normal. In the ADAR-hamstrug flies, virtually all of the eyes were white (reflecting a lot of silencing of the red color gene).</p>&#13; <p>Ultimately, Savva said, ADAR appears to be allowing transposons like Hoppel to exercise their capacity to regulate gene expression, even though they are really just uninvited guests in the genome.</p>&#13; <p>"What ADAR does is fine tune this regulatory network," Savva said. "In cells where you have ADAR, the network is activated. In cells where you don't it's silenced. It provides dynamicity."</p>&#13; <p>In other words, some of the differences among us may be apparent in the eyes of flies.</p><p>###</p>&#13; <p>In addition to Savva, Reenan, and Helfand, authors on the paper are James Jepson, Yoah-Jen Chang, Rachel Whitaker, Brian Jones, Nian Jiang, and Guyu Du of Brown; Georges St. Laurent of Brown and the St. Laurent Institute; and Michael Tackett and Phillipp Kapranov of the St. Laurent Institute.</p>&#13; <p>The National Institute on Aging (grants: AG16667, AG24353, AG25277) and the Ellison Medial Foundation funded the research.&#13; </p>&#13; &#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body></html>Source: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/bu-er110413.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/bu-er110413.php</a><br />Similar Articles: <a href="http://mensissuestips.com/story.php?title=maxi-taxi-singapore--singapore-maxi-taxi-bookinghotline65-8379-8000?949645757">Jonas Brothers</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://scyrby.com/story.php?title=maxi-cab-singapore--singapore-maxi-cab-schedulinghotlinesixty-five-8379-8000?635817119">EBT</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bootcamppgh.org/story.php?id=77238">breaking bad</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.bookmarkeen.com/story.php?title=maxi-taxi-singapore--singapore-maxi-cab-schedulinghotline65-8379-8000?659658415">FIFA 14</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://vowzor.com/story.php?title=maxi-taxi-singapore--singapore-maxi-cab-schedulinghotline65-8379-8000?418126249">2020 Olympics</a> &nbsp; <head><title>Edited RNA + invasive DNA add individuality</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="A study in Nature Communications finds that an enzyme that edits RNA may loosen the genome's control over invasive snippets of DNA that affect how genes are expressed. In fruit flies, that newly understood mechanism appears to contribute to differences among individuals such as eye color and life span."/><meta name="keywords" content="Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology Medicine/Health Developmental/Reproductive Biology Gerontology Aging"/><meta name="date" content="Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content="NIH/National Institute on Aging, Ellison Medical Foundation"/><meta name="journal" content="Nature Communications"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Brown University"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="165.342937676"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>8-Nov-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: David Orenstein<br/>david_orenstein@brown.edu<br/>401-863-1862<br/><span class="relinst">Brown University</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle"/> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The story of why we are all so different goes well beyond the endless mixing and matching of DNA through breeding. A new study in the journal <i>Nature Communications</i>, for instance, reports a new molecular mechanism of individual variation found in fruit flies that uses components operating in a wide variety of species, including humans.</p>&#13; <p>The new mechanism is based in a surprising genetic oddity. Nearly all genomes those of humans, fruit flies, and even corn and rice are constantly grappling with parasitic snippets of genetic material called "transposons." These snippets copy themselves, move around, and embed themselves within DNA. If left unchecked, transposons can alter how genetic instructions are carried out in the body,usually for the worse, sometimes for the better. But genomes don't leave transposons unchecked. They "look" for tell-tale double-stranded RNA associated with the transposons, chop the strands up and use the pieces to "silence" the invaders.</p>&#13; <p>In the new paper, scientists show that an enzyme called ADAR, which edits RNA in humans, flies, and many other creatures, edits double-stranded RNAs. This loosens the system that keeps "Hoppel" transposons silenced in fruit flies. When transposons are silenced, it's done by keeping them locked tight around tiny balls of material called chromatin.</p>&#13; <p>Since the amount of ADAR varies from one individual to the next, the amount of jailbreaking from those chromatin prison varies too, and that should lead to altered gene expression. After showing that an abundance of ADAR reduces silencing of a common transposon in the flies and that a lack of ADAR meant widespread silencing the researchers measured two consequences of different levels of ADAR activity: a 20-percent difference in life span and difference in eye color (red rather than white).</p>&#13; <p>The study was focused on fruit flies, ADAR, and the double-stranded RNA of the Hoppel transposon, but the ability of RNA editors to loosen the silencing of at least some transposons may be a source of individual variation in humans and other species too, said Brown University biologist Robert Reenan, senior author of the new study published online. Editing of double-stranded RNA or a lack of editing has already been linked to diseases in people, including amyloid lateral sclerosis and, specifically in the case of ADAR, Aicardi-Goutires syndrome.</p>&#13; <p>"ADAR in humans functions the same way it does in flies, and double-stranded RNAs are made in humans the same way," said Reenan, professor of biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. "They are all generic, off the shelf staples of the biological toolkit. This is not anything that is particular to flies."</p>&#13; <b/><p>Picking the double strand</p>&#13; <p>Many of Reenan's studies focus on ADAR's editing activity in the development of the nervous system, but this investigation began years ago when lead author and then graduate student Yiannis Savva happened to overexpress ADAR in fruit fly salivary gland cells. He found some bound in an unexpected place: one specific site on chromosome four.</p>&#13; <p>Reenan recalled: "I told him that's either an artifact or it will be the centerpiece of your thesis."</p>&#13; <p>Various tests revealed that the chromosome four site was a home for several Hoppel transposons making a double-stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and Reenan were curious about what business ADAR had with the transposon. A series of experiments in ensuing years did just that. They relocated the transposons to places where they weren't and found that ADAR followed. They deleted the double-stranded RNA from chromosome four and found that ADAR was no longer there. They identified specific editing sites and signs of editing on the double stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and his collaborators then measured silencing of tranposons with varying levels of ADAR and found that the more ADAR there was, the less silencing there was.</p>&#13; <p>Then, working with Stephen Helfand, an expert on the biology of aging, they noticed that a reduction of editing increases life span.</p>&#13; <p>"As a loss of silencing has been associated with aging in <i>Drosophila</i> and other organisms, we performed lifespan analyses on [low-ADAR] adults and wild-type controls and found a ~20-percent increase in the median life span of [low-ADAR] males and females," the authors wrote in <i>Nature Communications</i>.</p>&#13; <b/><p>Look in their eyes</p>&#13; <p>Later they looked at eye color, using natural (wild-type) flies and those where ADAR activity was either artificially hamstrung or excessively active. The natural flies have eyes that run a full continuum from red to white with various "variegating" blends in between that reflect the silencing state of their eye color gene. In the excessively ADAR-active flies there was little silencing and eyes turned out red much more often than normal. In the ADAR-hamstrug flies, virtually all of the eyes were white (reflecting a lot of silencing of the red color gene).</p>&#13; <p>Ultimately, Savva said, ADAR appears to be allowing transposons like Hoppel to exercise their capacity to regulate gene expression, even though they are really just uninvited guests in the genome.</p>&#13; <p>"What ADAR does is fine tune this regulatory network," Savva said. "In cells where you have ADAR, the network is activated. In cells where you don't it's silenced. It provides dynamicity."</p>&#13; <p>In other words, some of the differences among us may be apparent in the eyes of flies.</p><p>###</p>&#13; <p>In addition to Savva, Reenan, and Helfand, authors on the paper are James Jepson, Yoah-Jen Chang, Rachel Whitaker, Brian Jones, Nian Jiang, and Guyu Du of Brown; Georges St. Laurent of Brown and the St. Laurent Institute; and Michael Tackett and Phillipp Kapranov of the St. Laurent Institute.</p>&#13; <p>The National Institute on Aging (grants: AG16667, AG24353, AG25277) and the Ellison Medial Foundation funded the research.&#13; </p>&#13; &#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body><html readability="70.3769051322"><head><title>Edited RNA + invasive DNA add individuality</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="A study in Nature Communications finds that an enzyme that edits RNA may loosen the genome's control over invasive snippets of DNA that affect how genes are expressed. In fruit flies, that newly understood mechanism appears to contribute to differences among individuals such as eye color and life span."/><meta name="keywords" content="Biology Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology Medicine/Health Developmental/Reproductive Biology Gerontology Aging"/><meta name="date" content="Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content="NIH/National Institute on Aging, Ellison Medical Foundation"/><meta name="journal" content="Nature Communications"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Brown University"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="165.342937676"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>8-Nov-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: David Orenstein<br/>david_orenstein@brown.edu<br/>401-863-1862<br/><span class="relinst">Brown University</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle"/> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] The story of why we are all so different goes well beyond the endless mixing and matching of DNA through breeding. A new study in the journal <i>Nature Communications</i>, for instance, reports a new molecular mechanism of individual variation found in fruit flies that uses components operating in a wide variety of species, including humans.</p>&#13; <p>The new mechanism is based in a surprising genetic oddity. Nearly all genomes those of humans, fruit flies, and even corn and rice are constantly grappling with parasitic snippets of genetic material called "transposons." These snippets copy themselves, move around, and embed themselves within DNA. If left unchecked, transposons can alter how genetic instructions are carried out in the body,usually for the worse, sometimes for the better. But genomes don't leave transposons unchecked. They "look" for tell-tale double-stranded RNA associated with the transposons, chop the strands up and use the pieces to "silence" the invaders.</p>&#13; <p>In the new paper, scientists show that an enzyme called ADAR, which edits RNA in humans, flies, and many other creatures, edits double-stranded RNAs. This loosens the system that keeps "Hoppel" transposons silenced in fruit flies. When transposons are silenced, it's done by keeping them locked tight around tiny balls of material called chromatin.</p>&#13; <p>Since the amount of ADAR varies from one individual to the next, the amount of jailbreaking from those chromatin prison varies too, and that should lead to altered gene expression. After showing that an abundance of ADAR reduces silencing of a common transposon in the flies and that a lack of ADAR meant widespread silencing the researchers measured two consequences of different levels of ADAR activity: a 20-percent difference in life span and difference in eye color (red rather than white).</p>&#13; <p>The study was focused on fruit flies, ADAR, and the double-stranded RNA of the Hoppel transposon, but the ability of RNA editors to loosen the silencing of at least some transposons may be a source of individual variation in humans and other species too, said Brown University biologist Robert Reenan, senior author of the new study published online. Editing of double-stranded RNA or a lack of editing has already been linked to diseases in people, including amyloid lateral sclerosis and, specifically in the case of ADAR, Aicardi-Goutires syndrome.</p>&#13; <p>"ADAR in humans functions the same way it does in flies, and double-stranded RNAs are made in humans the same way," said Reenan, professor of biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry. "They are all generic, off the shelf staples of the biological toolkit. This is not anything that is particular to flies."</p>&#13; <b/><p>Picking the double strand</p>&#13; <p>Many of Reenan's studies focus on ADAR's editing activity in the development of the nervous system, but this investigation began years ago when lead author and then graduate student Yiannis Savva happened to overexpress ADAR in fruit fly salivary gland cells. He found some bound in an unexpected place: one specific site on chromosome four.</p>&#13; <p>Reenan recalled: "I told him that's either an artifact or it will be the centerpiece of your thesis."</p>&#13; <p>Various tests revealed that the chromosome four site was a home for several Hoppel transposons making a double-stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and Reenan were curious about what business ADAR had with the transposon. A series of experiments in ensuing years did just that. They relocated the transposons to places where they weren't and found that ADAR followed. They deleted the double-stranded RNA from chromosome four and found that ADAR was no longer there. They identified specific editing sites and signs of editing on the double stranded RNA.</p>&#13; <p>Savva and his collaborators then measured silencing of tranposons with varying levels of ADAR and found that the more ADAR there was, the less silencing there was.</p>&#13; <p>Then, working with Stephen Helfand, an expert on the biology of aging, they noticed that a reduction of editing increases life span.</p>&#13; <p>"As a loss of silencing has been associated with aging in <i>Drosophila</i> and other organisms, we performed lifespan analyses on [low-ADAR] adults and wild-type controls and found a ~20-percent increase in the median life span of [low-ADAR] males and females," the authors wrote in <i>Nature Communications</i>.</p>&#13; <b/><p>Look in their eyes</p>&#13; <p>Later they looked at eye color, using natural (wild-type) flies and those where ADAR activity was either artificially hamstrung or excessively active. The natural flies have eyes that run a full continuum from red to white with various "variegating" blends in between that reflect the silencing state of their eye color gene. In the excessively ADAR-active flies there was little silencing and eyes turned out red much more often than normal. In the ADAR-hamstrug flies, virtually all of the eyes were white (reflecting a lot of silencing of the red color gene).</p>&#13; <p>Ultimately, Savva said, ADAR appears to be allowing transposons like Hoppel to exercise their capacity to regulate gene expression, even though they are really just uninvited guests in the genome.</p>&#13; <p>"What ADAR does is fine tune this regulatory network," Savva said. "In cells where you have ADAR, the network is activated. In cells where you don't it's silenced. It provides dynamicity."</p>&#13; <p>In other words, some of the differences among us may be apparent in the eyes of flies.</p><p>###</p>&#13; <p>In addition to Savva, Reenan, and Helfand, authors on the paper are James Jepson, Yoah-Jen Chang, Rachel Whitaker, Brian Jones, Nian Jiang, and Guyu Du of Brown; Georges St. Laurent of Brown and the St. Laurent Institute; and Michael Tackett and Phillipp Kapranov of the St. Laurent Institute.</p>&#13; <p>The National Institute on Aging (grants: AG16667, AG24353, AG25277) and the Ellison Medial Foundation funded the research.&#13; </p>&#13; &#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body></html>Source: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/bu-er110413.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/bu-er110413.php</a><br />Similar Articles: <a href="http://mensissuestips.com/story.php?title=maxi-taxi-singapore--singapore-maxi-taxi-bookinghotline65-8379-8000?949645757">Jonas Brothers</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://scyrby.com/story.php?title=maxi-cab-singapore--singapore-maxi-cab-schedulinghotlinesixty-five-8379-8000?635817119">EBT</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bootcamppgh.org/story.php?id=77238">breaking bad</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.bookmarkeen.com/story.php?title=maxi-taxi-singapore--singapore-maxi-cab-schedulinghotline65-8379-8000?659658415">FIFA 14</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://vowzor.com/story.php?title=maxi-taxi-singapore--singapore-maxi-cab-schedulinghotline65-8379-8000?418126249">2020 Olympics</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b00b1434b970b Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-11-05T15:05:39Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b00b14346970bUnknown Chagall among works in 'Nazi art trove': experthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-11-05T15:05:38Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88 <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-11-05T11:58:42Z"/><meta itemprop="headline" content="Unknown Chagall among works in 'Nazi art trove': expert"/><meta itemprop="alternativeHeadline" content=""/><meta itemprop="image" content="http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/a262995d84ee4723be2e31ec0c3277ee9a0fedf6.jpg"/><meta itemprop="description" content="Augsburg (Germany) (AFP) - Previously unknown masterpieces by modernist painters Marc Chagall and Otto Dix are among the vast trove of works believed stolen by the Nazis and hidden in a Munich flat, an art historian said Tuesday. Meike Hoffmann, an expert aiding the investigation, said the Chagall painting, an allegorical scene dating from the mid-1920s, had a &quot;particularly high art-historical value&quot;. Hoffmann showed slides of the paintings, which also include works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, at a news conference in the southern city of Augsburg where the German authorities shed light on the spectacular find in the apartment of an eccentric elderly loner. The man, identified as Cornelius Gurlitt, is the son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a prominent Nazi-era art dealer who acquired the paintings in the 1930s and 1940s."/><p>Augsburg (Germany) (AFP) - Previously unknown masterpieces by modernist painters Marc Chagall and Otto Dix are among the vast trove of works believed stolen by the Nazis and hidden in a Munich flat, an art historian said Tuesday.</p><p>Meike Hoffmann, an expert aiding the investigation, said the Chagall painting, an allegorical scene dating from the mid-1920s, had a "particularly high art-historical value". </p><p>The Dix work is a rare self-portrait believed to have been painted in 1919.</p><p>Hoffmann showed slides of the paintings, which also include works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, at a news conference in the southern city of Augsburg where the German authorities shed light on the spectacular find in the apartment of an eccentric elderly loner.</p><p>The man, identified as Cornelius Gurlitt, is the son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a prominent Nazi-era art dealer who acquired the paintings in the 1930s and 1940s.</p><p>Hildebrand Gurlitt had been one of a handful of art experts tasked by the Nazis with selling valuable artworks stolen from Jewish collectors or seized among avant-garde works deemed to be "degenerate".</p><p>Augsburg chief prosecutor Reinhard Nemetz said 1,285 unframed and 121 framed paintings, sketches and prints were found in the rubbish-strewn flat, some dating back to the 16th century. </p><ul id="topics" class="hidden"><li data-id="YCT:001000101">Visual Arts</li><li data-id="WIKIID:Marc_Chagall">Marc Chagall</li><li data-id="WIKIID:Otto_Dix">Otto Dix</li><li data-id="WIKIID:Augsburg">Augsburg</li></ul><!-- google_ad_section_end -->Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/unknown-chagall-among-works-nazi-art-trove-095551508.html">http://news.yahoo.com/unknown-chagall-among-works-nazi-art-trove-095551508.html</a><br />Category: <a href="http://hotel-cha-am.com/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-proudly-saving-you-money-since-2006-?346245138">penn state</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://thubbu.com/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-proudly-saving-you-cash-since-2006-?418347227">Olivia Culpo</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.financialeconomicsguide.com/ratings/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-proudly-saving-you-cash-since-2006-?826158217">mlb</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://hadesbookmarks.com/tags.php/123170">Kenichi Ebina</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://wookmarks.com/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-happily-saving-you-cash-since-2006-?538119545">Jamaal Charles</a> &nbsp; <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2013-11-05T11:58:42Z"/><meta itemprop="headline" content="Unknown Chagall among works in 'Nazi art trove': expert"/><meta itemprop="alternativeHeadline" content=""/><meta itemprop="image" content="http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/a262995d84ee4723be2e31ec0c3277ee9a0fedf6.jpg"/><meta itemprop="description" content="Augsburg (Germany) (AFP) - Previously unknown masterpieces by modernist painters Marc Chagall and Otto Dix are among the vast trove of works believed stolen by the Nazis and hidden in a Munich flat, an art historian said Tuesday. Meike Hoffmann, an expert aiding the investigation, said the Chagall painting, an allegorical scene dating from the mid-1920s, had a &quot;particularly high art-historical value&quot;. Hoffmann showed slides of the paintings, which also include works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, at a news conference in the southern city of Augsburg where the German authorities shed light on the spectacular find in the apartment of an eccentric elderly loner. The man, identified as Cornelius Gurlitt, is the son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a prominent Nazi-era art dealer who acquired the paintings in the 1930s and 1940s."/><p>Augsburg (Germany) (AFP) - Previously unknown masterpieces by modernist painters Marc Chagall and Otto Dix are among the vast trove of works believed stolen by the Nazis and hidden in a Munich flat, an art historian said Tuesday.</p><p>Meike Hoffmann, an expert aiding the investigation, said the Chagall painting, an allegorical scene dating from the mid-1920s, had a "particularly high art-historical value". </p><p>The Dix work is a rare self-portrait believed to have been painted in 1919.</p><p>Hoffmann showed slides of the paintings, which also include works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, at a news conference in the southern city of Augsburg where the German authorities shed light on the spectacular find in the apartment of an eccentric elderly loner.</p><p>The man, identified as Cornelius Gurlitt, is the son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a prominent Nazi-era art dealer who acquired the paintings in the 1930s and 1940s.</p><p>Hildebrand Gurlitt had been one of a handful of art experts tasked by the Nazis with selling valuable artworks stolen from Jewish collectors or seized among avant-garde works deemed to be "degenerate".</p><p>Augsburg chief prosecutor Reinhard Nemetz said 1,285 unframed and 121 framed paintings, sketches and prints were found in the rubbish-strewn flat, some dating back to the 16th century. </p><ul id="topics" class="hidden"><li data-id="YCT:001000101">Visual Arts</li><li data-id="WIKIID:Marc_Chagall">Marc Chagall</li><li data-id="WIKIID:Otto_Dix">Otto Dix</li><li data-id="WIKIID:Augsburg">Augsburg</li></ul><!-- google_ad_section_end -->Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/unknown-chagall-among-works-nazi-art-trove-095551508.html">http://news.yahoo.com/unknown-chagall-among-works-nazi-art-trove-095551508.html</a><br />Category: <a href="http://hotel-cha-am.com/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-proudly-saving-you-money-since-2006-?346245138">penn state</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://thubbu.com/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-proudly-saving-you-cash-since-2006-?418347227">Olivia Culpo</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.financialeconomicsguide.com/ratings/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-proudly-saving-you-cash-since-2006-?826158217">mlb</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://hadesbookmarks.com/tags.php/123170">Kenichi Ebina</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://wookmarks.com/story.php?title=easy-room-guide-happily-saving-you-cash-since-2006-?538119545">Jamaal Charles</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b009415b7970b Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-11-02T14:21:50Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b009415b4970bMedia advisory for Entomology 2013 in Austin, Texashttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-11-02T14:21:50Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<head><title>Media advisory for Entomology 2013 in Austin, Texas</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="Nearly 3,500 insect scientists will swarm to the Austin Convention Center from Nov. 10-13, 2013 for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America."/><meta name="keywords" content="Agriculture Fertilizers/Pest Management Biology Biodiversity Ecology/Environment Entomology Evolution Parasitology Plant Sciences Zoology/Veterinary Science Bioinformatics"/><meta name="date" content="Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content=""/><meta name="type" content="meeting"/><meta name="institution" content="Entomological Society of America"/><meta name="meeting" content="Entomology 2013, the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America"/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="89.3576362241"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>29-Oct-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: Richard Levine<br/>rlevine@entsoc.org<br/>301-731-4535<br/><span class="relinst">Entomological Society of America</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">Nearly 3,500 insect scientists will swarm to the Austin Convention Center from Nov. 10-13, 2013 for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America</h2> <p>Nearly 3,500 insect scientists will swarm to the Austin Convention Center from November 10-13, 2013 for the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America.</p>&#13; <p>Members of the media who would like to attend can contact ESA for a complimentary press pass by writing to rlevine@entsoc.org or by calling 301-731-4535, ext 3009.</p>&#13; <p>Topics covered during the meeting will include bed bugs, honey bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, fire ants, genetically modified crops (GMOs), pest management, mosquitoes, insecticide resistance, forensic entomology, insect-borne diseases, insect evolution, arthropod repellents, invasive species, stink bugs, ticks, and more.</p>&#13; <p>The full program is available online at http://www.entsoc.org/entomology2013/program-book.</p>&#13; <p>In addition to the scientific presentations, the meeting will also feature a hall with more than 50 exhibitors, social events, student debates and contests, the Linnaean Games, and more.</p>&#13; <p>Members of the media are also invited to attend the Austin Insect Rodeo Expo at the Bullock Texas State History Museum on Saturday, November 9, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM. 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Hundreds of children are expected to attend this free educational event, along with dozens of volunteer entomologists. For more information, see http://www.entsoc.org/press-releases/termite-nascar-coming-austin-insect-rodeo-expo.&#13; </p><p>Videos from previous ESA Annual Meetings are available at http://www.entsoc.org/press-releases/media-advisory-entomology-2013-austin-texas.&#13; </p><p>###</p>&#13; <p>The Entomological Society of America (ESA) is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA today has more than 6,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health agencies, private industry, and government. Members are students, researchers, teachers, extension service personnel, administrators, marketing representatives, research technicians, consultants, and hobbyists. 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Hundreds of children are expected to attend this free educational event, along with dozens of volunteer entomologists. For more information, see http://www.entsoc.org/press-releases/termite-nascar-coming-austin-insect-rodeo-expo.&#13; </p><p>Videos from previous ESA Annual Meetings are available at http://www.entsoc.org/press-releases/media-advisory-entomology-2013-austin-texas.&#13; </p><p>###</p>&#13; <p>The Entomological Society of America (ESA) is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA today has more than 6,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health agencies, private industry, and government. Members are students, researchers, teachers, extension service personnel, administrators, marketing representatives, research technicians, consultants, and hobbyists. For more information, please visit http://www.entsoc.org.&#13; </p>&#13; &#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body></html>Source: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/esoa-maf102913.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/esoa-maf102913.php</a><br />Category: <a href="http://roletnaga.com/entries/view/10191/an-average-hvac-expert-witness-that-enjoys-books.html">dia de los muertos</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.click2protection.com/user.php?login=0gpstrackingexpertwitness">ABC Family</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.click2protection.com/story.php?title=an-average-dui-expert-witness-that-enjoys-life-">When Was The First Parachute Jump?</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.kanalku.com/entries/order/user/4107">Donatella Versace</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.kanalku.com/entries/view/104975/an-average-the-expert-witness-that-enjoys-sports.html">kaley cuoco</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b00789154970b Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-30T19:36:30Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b00789150970bLive Chat: Michael Chandler vs. Eddie Alvarez 2 preview, Bellator 106 talk, UFC headlineshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-30T19:36:29Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div readability="65.1363004172"> <p>It's very rare that I lead chat discussion with Bellator news and notes, but this week is one such time where that makes sense. MMA's number two organization does their best to recover from their abrupt albeit temporary pivot away from pay-per-view after the cancellation of <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mma/fight/4097/bellator-106-quinton-jackson-vs-tito-ortiz">Tito Ortiz vs. Quinton Jackson</a>.</p> <p>The reality, despite the hemming and hawing from some fans and media online, is a great card. I don't know if it was ever pay-per-view ready, but it's more than a fine fit for Spike TV.</p> <p>The questions I have are: will <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mma/fighter/122519/tito-ortiz">Tito Ortiz</a> finally go away? Who is next for Rampage? Why is Bellator rushing to pay-per-view? And perhaps most importantly, why does everyone seem to not understand a thing about Bellator?</p> <p>We'll, of course, get to all UFC news and notes.</p> <p>There's a lot going on, so join me today to discuss all of this and more. In terms of today's chat, anything is up for discussion, but I will lead with this and it all kicks off at <strong>1 p.m. ET</strong>.</p> <p id="paragraph5">As is customary, I'll post the video window here as the event draws near and I'll answer any questions you may have if you post them in the comments section below. Be sure that you click the 'rec' button for those comments/questions you believe most deserve a response.</p> <p id="paragraph6">Be sure to link this page and use the hashtag <strong>#chatwrappers</strong> on Twitter or even Facebook when you're watching this to let everyone know you're taking part is this activity of ours.</p> <p id="paragraph7">Talk with you all at <strong>1 p.m. ET</strong>.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/10/30/5046244/live-chat-michael-chandler-vs-eddie-alvarez-2-preview-bellator-106">http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/10/30/5046244/live-chat-michael-chandler-vs-eddie-alvarez-2-preview-bellator-106</a><br />Category: <a href="http://evropskyfotbal.cz/nemanja-vidic-se-pripravuje-na-navrat/">olivia wilde</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.enlaceveracruzano.com/blog/?p=3500">peyton manning</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://thefabempire.com/2011/10/17/pics-kevin-hart-hosts-mlk-dedication-after-party-at-love-nightclub/">Ronan Farrow</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://blogs.bolsademulher.com/MarianaMaldonado/2006/07/10/vaginismo/">elvis presley</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://blogs.mcpherson.edu/alumni/2010/08/family-fun-day/">megyn kelly</a> &nbsp; <div readability="65.1363004172"> <p>It's very rare that I lead chat discussion with Bellator news and notes, but this week is one such time where that makes sense. MMA's number two organization does their best to recover from their abrupt albeit temporary pivot away from pay-per-view after the cancellation of <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mma/fight/4097/bellator-106-quinton-jackson-vs-tito-ortiz">Tito Ortiz vs. Quinton Jackson</a>.</p> <p>The reality, despite the hemming and hawing from some fans and media online, is a great card. I don't know if it was ever pay-per-view ready, but it's more than a fine fit for Spike TV.</p> <p>The questions I have are: will <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/mma/fighter/122519/tito-ortiz">Tito Ortiz</a> finally go away? Who is next for Rampage? Why is Bellator rushing to pay-per-view? And perhaps most importantly, why does everyone seem to not understand a thing about Bellator?</p> <p>We'll, of course, get to all UFC news and notes.</p> <p>There's a lot going on, so join me today to discuss all of this and more. In terms of today's chat, anything is up for discussion, but I will lead with this and it all kicks off at <strong>1 p.m. ET</strong>.</p> <p id="paragraph5">As is customary, I'll post the video window here as the event draws near and I'll answer any questions you may have if you post them in the comments section below. Be sure that you click the 'rec' button for those comments/questions you believe most deserve a response.</p> <p id="paragraph6">Be sure to link this page and use the hashtag <strong>#chatwrappers</strong> on Twitter or even Facebook when you're watching this to let everyone know you're taking part is this activity of ours.</p> <p id="paragraph7">Talk with you all at <strong>1 p.m. ET</strong>.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/10/30/5046244/live-chat-michael-chandler-vs-eddie-alvarez-2-preview-bellator-106">http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/10/30/5046244/live-chat-michael-chandler-vs-eddie-alvarez-2-preview-bellator-106</a><br />Category: <a href="http://evropskyfotbal.cz/nemanja-vidic-se-pripravuje-na-navrat/">olivia wilde</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.enlaceveracruzano.com/blog/?p=3500">peyton manning</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://thefabempire.com/2011/10/17/pics-kevin-hart-hosts-mlk-dedication-after-party-at-love-nightclub/">Ronan Farrow</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://blogs.bolsademulher.com/MarianaMaldonado/2006/07/10/vaginismo/">elvis presley</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://blogs.mcpherson.edu/alumni/2010/08/family-fun-day/">megyn kelly</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b00608deb970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-28T01:26:47Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b00608de8970cLou Reed, iconic punk poet, dead at 71http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-28T01:26:46Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88 <p>FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, Lou Reed performs at the Lollapalooza music festival, in Chicago. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/John Smierciak, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, Lou Reed performs at the Lollapalooza music festival, in Chicago. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/John Smierciak, File)</p> <p>FILE - In a March 27 1989 file photo, musician Lou Reed poses at the American Sound Studio in New York. Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie says the legendary musician died Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2013 in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant. He was 71. (AP Photo/Wyatt Counts, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, Lou Reed takes the podium as the Velvet Underground, the group he once headed, is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Band mate John Cale is at left, and at right is Martha Morrison, accepting for late band member Sterling Morrison. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)</p> <p>FILE - In a June 13, 1986 file photo, Lou Reed performs during musical number at a benefit in Chicago, for Amnesty International. Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie says the legendary musician died Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2013 in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant. He was 71. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)</p> <p>FILE - In a Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, members of the band the Velvet Underground, from left, Maureen Tucker; Martha Morrison, attending for her late husband, Sterling Morrison; John Cale and Lou Reed pose backstage after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/Joe Tabacca, File)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) — Lou Reed was a pioneer for countless bands who didn't worry about their next hit single.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, radically challenged rock's founding promise of good times and public celebration. As leader of the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, he was the father of indie rock, and an ancestor of punk, New Wave and the alternative rock movements of the 1970s, '80s and beyond. He influenced generations of musicians from David Bowie and R.E.M. to Talking Heads and Sonic Youth.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"The first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years," Brian Eno, who produced albums by Roxy Music and Talking Heads among others, once said. "I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!"</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed and the Velvet Underground opened rock music to the avant-garde — to experimental theater, art, literature and film, from William Burroughs to Kurt Weill to Andy Warhol, Reed's early patron. Raised on doo-wop and Carl Perkins, Delmore Schwartz and the Beats, Reed helped shape the punk ethos of raw power, the alternative rock ethos of irony and droning music and the art-rock embrace of experimentation, whether the dual readings of Beat-influenced verse for "Murder Mystery," or, like a passage out of Burroughs' "Naked Lunch," the orgy of guns, drugs and oral sex on the Velvet Underground's 15-minute "Sister Ray."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed died in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who added that Reed had been in frail health for months. Reed shared a home in Southampton with his wife and fellow musician, Laurie Anderson, whom he married in 2008. Tributes to Reed came Sunday from such friends and admirers as Salman Rushdie and former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, who mourned his "school-yard buddy."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">His trademarks were a monotone of surprising emotional range and power; slashing, grinding guitar; and lyrics that were complex, yet conversational, designed to make you feel as if Reed were seated next to you. Known for his cold stare and gaunt features, he was a cynic and a seeker who seemed to embody downtown Manhattan culture of the 1960s and '70s and was as essential a New York artist as Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen. Reed's New York was a jaded city of drag queens, drug addicts and violence, but it was also as wondrous as any Allen comedy, with so many of Reed's songs explorations of right and wrong and quests for transcendence.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He had one top 20 hit, "Walk On the Wild Side," and many other songs that became standards among his admirers, from "Heroin" and "Sweet Jane" to "Pale Blue Eyes" and "All Tomorrow's Parties." An outlaw in his early years, Reed would eventually perform at the White House, have his writing published in The New Yorker, be featured by PBS in an "American Masters" documentary and win a Grammy in 1999 for Best Long Form Music Video. The Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame in 1996 and their landmark debut album, "The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico," was added to the Library of Congress' registry in 2006.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed called one song "Growing Up in Public" and his career was an ongoing exhibit of how any subject could be set to rock music — the death of a parent ("Standing On Ceremony), AIDS ("The Halloween Parade"), some favorite movies and plays ("Doin' the Things That We Want To"), racism ("I Want to be Black"), the electroshock therapy he received as a teen ("Kill Your Sons").</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reviewing Reed's 1989 topical album "New York," Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that "the pleasure of the lyrics is mostly tone and delivery — plus the impulse they validate, their affirmation that you can write songs about this stuff. Protesting, elegizing, carping, waxing sarcastic, forcing jokes, stating facts, garbling what he just read in the Times, free-associating to doomsday, Lou carries on a New York conversation — all that's missing is a disquisition on real estate."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He was one of rock's archetypal tough guys, but he grew up middle class — an accountant's son raised on Long Island. Reed was born to be a suburban dropout. He hated school, loved rock 'n' roll, fought with his parents and attacked them in song for forcing him to undergo electroshock therapy as a supposed "cure" for being bisexual. "Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry," he later wrote.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">His real break began in college. At Syracuse University, he studied under Schwartz, whom Reed would call the first "great man" he ever encountered. He credited Schwartz with making him want to become a writer and to express himself in the most concrete language possible. Reed honored his mentor in the song "My House," recounting how he connected with the spirit of the late, mad poet through a Ouija board. "Blazing stood the proud and regal name Delmore," he sang.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed moved to New York City after college and traveled in the pop and art worlds, working as a house songwriter at the low-budget Pickwick Records and putting in late hours in downtown clubs. One of his Pickwick songs, the dance parody "The Ostrich," was considered commercial enough to record. Fellow studio musicians included Cale, a Welsh-born viola player, with whom Reed soon performed in such makeshift groups as the Warlocks and the Primitives.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">They were joined by a friend of Reed's from Syracuse, guitarist-bassist Sterling Morrison; and by an acquaintance of Morrison's, drummer Maureen Tucker, who tapped out simple, hypnotic rhythms while playing standing up. They renamed themselves the Velvet Underground after a Michael Leigh book about the sexual subculture. By the mid-1960s, they were rehearsing at Warhol's "Factory," a meeting ground of art, music, orgies, drug parties and screen tests for films that ended up being projected onto the band while it performed, part of what Warhol called the "Floating Plastic Inevitable."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Warhol was the great catalyst," Reed told BOMB magazine in 1998. "It all revolved around him. It all happened very much because of him. He was like a swirl, and these things would come into being: Lo and behold multimedia. There it was. No one really thought about it, it was just fun."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Before the Velvets, references to drugs and sex were often brief and indirect, if only to ensure a chance at radio and television play. In 1967, the year of the Velvets' first album, the Rolling Stones were pressured to sing the title of their latest single as "Let's Spend Some Time Together" instead of "Let's Spend the Night Together" when they were performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The Doors fought with Sullivan over the word "higher" from "Light My Fire."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The Velvets said everything other bands were forbidden to say and some things other bands never imagined. Reed wrote some of rock's most explicit lyrics about drugs ("Heroin," ''Waiting for My Man"), sadomasochism ("Venus in Furs") and prostitution ("There She Goes Again"). His love songs were less stories of boy-meets-girl, than ambiguous studies of the heart, like the philosophical games of "Some Kinda Love" or the weary ballad "Pale Blue Eyes," an elegy for an old girlfriend and a confession to a post-breakup fling:</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It was good what we did yesterday</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">And I'd do it once again</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The fact that you are married</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Only proves you're my best friend</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">But it's truly, truly a sin</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Away from the Factory, the Velvets and were all too ahead of their time, getting tossed out of clubs or having audience members walk out. The mainstream press, still seeking a handle on the Beatles and the Stones, was thrown entirely by the Velvet Underground. The New York Times at first couldn't find the words, calling the Velvets "Warhol's jazz band" in a January 1966 story and "a combination of rock 'n roll and Egyptian belly-dance music" just days later. The Velvets' appearance in a Warhol film, "More Milk, Yvette," only added to the dismay of Times critic Bosley Crowther.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Also on the bill is a performance by a group of rock 'n' roll singers called the Velvet Underground," Crowther wrote. "They bang away at their electronic equipment, while random movies are thrown on the screen in back of them. When will somebody ennoble Mr. Warhol with an above-ground movie called 'For Crying Out Loud'?"</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">At Warhol's suggestion, they performed and recorded with the sultry, German-born Nico, a "chanteuse" who sang lead on a handful of songs from their debut album. A storm cloud over 1967's Summer of Love, "The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico" featured a now-iconic Warhol drawing of a (peelable) banana on the cover and proved an uncanny musical extension of Warhol's blank-faced aura. The Velvets juxtaposed childlike melodies with dry, affectless vocals on "Sunday Morning" and "Femme Fatale." On "Heroin," Cale's viola screeched and jumped behind Reed's obliterating junkie's journey, with his sacred vow, "Herrrrrr-o-in, it's my wife, and it's my life," and his cry into the void, "And I guess that I just don't know."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"'Heroin' is the Velvets' masterpiece — seven minutes of excruciating spiritual extremity," wrote critic Ellen Willis. "No other work of art I know about has made the junkie's experience so horrible, so powerful, so appealing; listening to 'Heroin' I feel simultaneously impelled to somehow save this man and to reach for the needle."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed made just three more albums with the Velvet Underground before leaving in 1970. Cale was pushed out by Reed in 1968 (they had a long history of animosity) and was replaced by Doug Yule. Their sound turned more accessible, and the final album with Reed, "Loaded," included two upbeat musical anthems, "Rock and Roll" and "Sweet Jane," in which Reed seemed to warn Velvets fans — and himself — that "there's even some evil mothers/Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He lived many lives in the '70s, initially moving back home and working at his father's office, then competing with Keith Richards as the rock star most likely to die. He binged on drugs and alcohol, gained weight, lost even more and was described by critic Lester Bangs as "so transcendently emaciated he had indeed become insectival." Reed simulated shooting heroin during concerts, cursed out journalists and once slugged David Bowie when Bowie suggested he clean up his life.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Lou Reed is the guy that gave dignity and poetry and rock 'n' roll to smack, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny, stumblebum passivity, and suicide," wrote Bangs, a dedicated fan and fearless detractor, "and then proceeded to belie all his achievements and return to the mire by turning the whole thing into a monumental bad joke with himself as the woozily insistent Henny Youngman in the center ring, mumbling punch lines that kept losing their punch."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">His albums in the '70s were alternately praised as daring experiments or mocked as embarrassing failures, whether the ambitious song suite "Berlin" or the wholly experimental "Metal Machine Music," an hour of electronic feedback. But in the 1980s, he kicked drugs and released a series of acclaimed albums, including "The Blue Mask," ''Legendary Hearts" and "New Sensations."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He played some reunion shows with the Velvet Underground and in 1990 teamed with Cale for "Drella," a spare tribute to Warhol. He continued to receive strong reviews in the 1990s and after for such albums as "Set the Twilight Reeling." And "Ecstasy" and he continued to test new ground, whether a 2002 concept album about Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," or a 2011 collaboration with Metallica, "Lulu."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed fancied dictionary language like "capricious" and "harridan," but he found special magic in the word "bells," sounding from above, "up in the sky," as he sang on the Velvets' "What Goes On." A personal favorite was the title track from a 1979 album, "The Bells." Over a foggy swirl of synthesizers and horns, suggesting a haunted house on skid row, Reed improvised a fairy tale about a stage actor who leaves work late at night and takes in a chiming, urban "Milky Way."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It was really not so cute</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">to play without a parachute</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">As he stood upon the ledge</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Looking out, he thought he saw a brook</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">And he hollered, 'Look, there are the bells!'</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">And he sang out, 'Here come the bells!</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Here come the bells! Here come the bells!</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Here come the bells!'</p><!-- SourceOrganizationStart --><span id="sourceOrganization" class="source-org vcard">Associated Press</span><!-- SourceOrganizationEnd -->Source: <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-27-Obit-Lou%20Reed/id-6716c629b45d41899675b697fc7d0e14">http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-27-Obit-Lou%20Reed/id-6716c629b45d41899675b697fc7d0e14</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://derals01.bcz.com/2013/10/23/potty-training-tips-for-boys/">pauly d</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://reona01.snappages.com/blog/2013/10/19/fat-burning-supplements-for-men-by-nick-pineault">clemson football</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://filani01.beep.com/index.htm">New 100 Dollar Bill</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.migente.com/your_page/blog/view_posting.html?pid=4278588&profile_id=8156630&profile_name=ujin01&user_id=8156630&username=ujin01">the league</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.tested.com/forums/general-discussion/458674-fat-burning-workouts-for-men-by-nick-pineault/">Vma Miley Cyrus</a> &nbsp; <p>FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, Lou Reed performs at the Lollapalooza music festival, in Chicago. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/John Smierciak, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 file photo, Lou Reed performs at the Lollapalooza music festival, in Chicago. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/John Smierciak, File)</p> <p>FILE - In a March 27 1989 file photo, musician Lou Reed poses at the American Sound Studio in New York. Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie says the legendary musician died Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2013 in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant. He was 71. (AP Photo/Wyatt Counts, File)</p> <p>FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, Lou Reed takes the podium as the Velvet Underground, the group he once headed, is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Band mate John Cale is at left, and at right is Martha Morrison, accepting for late band member Sterling Morrison. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)</p> <p>FILE - In a June 13, 1986 file photo, Lou Reed performs during musical number at a benefit in Chicago, for Amnesty International. Reed's literary agent Andrew Wylie says the legendary musician died Sunday morning, Oct. 27, 2013 in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant. He was 71. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)</p> <p>FILE - In a Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, members of the band the Velvet Underground, from left, Maureen Tucker; Martha Morrison, attending for her late husband, Sterling Morrison; John Cale and Lou Reed pose backstage after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Punk-poet, rock legend Lou Reed is dead of a liver-related ailment, his literary agen said Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. He was 71. (AP Photo/Joe Tabacca, File)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) — Lou Reed was a pioneer for countless bands who didn't worry about their next hit single.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, radically challenged rock's founding promise of good times and public celebration. As leader of the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, he was the father of indie rock, and an ancestor of punk, New Wave and the alternative rock movements of the 1970s, '80s and beyond. He influenced generations of musicians from David Bowie and R.E.M. to Talking Heads and Sonic Youth.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"The first Velvet Underground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years," Brian Eno, who produced albums by Roxy Music and Talking Heads among others, once said. "I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!"</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed and the Velvet Underground opened rock music to the avant-garde — to experimental theater, art, literature and film, from William Burroughs to Kurt Weill to Andy Warhol, Reed's early patron. Raised on doo-wop and Carl Perkins, Delmore Schwartz and the Beats, Reed helped shape the punk ethos of raw power, the alternative rock ethos of irony and droning music and the art-rock embrace of experimentation, whether the dual readings of Beat-influenced verse for "Murder Mystery," or, like a passage out of Burroughs' "Naked Lunch," the orgy of guns, drugs and oral sex on the Velvet Underground's 15-minute "Sister Ray."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed died in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who added that Reed had been in frail health for months. Reed shared a home in Southampton with his wife and fellow musician, Laurie Anderson, whom he married in 2008. Tributes to Reed came Sunday from such friends and admirers as Salman Rushdie and former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, who mourned his "school-yard buddy."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">His trademarks were a monotone of surprising emotional range and power; slashing, grinding guitar; and lyrics that were complex, yet conversational, designed to make you feel as if Reed were seated next to you. Known for his cold stare and gaunt features, he was a cynic and a seeker who seemed to embody downtown Manhattan culture of the 1960s and '70s and was as essential a New York artist as Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen. Reed's New York was a jaded city of drag queens, drug addicts and violence, but it was also as wondrous as any Allen comedy, with so many of Reed's songs explorations of right and wrong and quests for transcendence.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He had one top 20 hit, "Walk On the Wild Side," and many other songs that became standards among his admirers, from "Heroin" and "Sweet Jane" to "Pale Blue Eyes" and "All Tomorrow's Parties." An outlaw in his early years, Reed would eventually perform at the White House, have his writing published in The New Yorker, be featured by PBS in an "American Masters" documentary and win a Grammy in 1999 for Best Long Form Music Video. The Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame in 1996 and their landmark debut album, "The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico," was added to the Library of Congress' registry in 2006.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed called one song "Growing Up in Public" and his career was an ongoing exhibit of how any subject could be set to rock music — the death of a parent ("Standing On Ceremony), AIDS ("The Halloween Parade"), some favorite movies and plays ("Doin' the Things That We Want To"), racism ("I Want to be Black"), the electroshock therapy he received as a teen ("Kill Your Sons").</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reviewing Reed's 1989 topical album "New York," Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that "the pleasure of the lyrics is mostly tone and delivery — plus the impulse they validate, their affirmation that you can write songs about this stuff. Protesting, elegizing, carping, waxing sarcastic, forcing jokes, stating facts, garbling what he just read in the Times, free-associating to doomsday, Lou carries on a New York conversation — all that's missing is a disquisition on real estate."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He was one of rock's archetypal tough guys, but he grew up middle class — an accountant's son raised on Long Island. Reed was born to be a suburban dropout. He hated school, loved rock 'n' roll, fought with his parents and attacked them in song for forcing him to undergo electroshock therapy as a supposed "cure" for being bisexual. "Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry," he later wrote.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">His real break began in college. At Syracuse University, he studied under Schwartz, whom Reed would call the first "great man" he ever encountered. He credited Schwartz with making him want to become a writer and to express himself in the most concrete language possible. Reed honored his mentor in the song "My House," recounting how he connected with the spirit of the late, mad poet through a Ouija board. "Blazing stood the proud and regal name Delmore," he sang.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed moved to New York City after college and traveled in the pop and art worlds, working as a house songwriter at the low-budget Pickwick Records and putting in late hours in downtown clubs. One of his Pickwick songs, the dance parody "The Ostrich," was considered commercial enough to record. Fellow studio musicians included Cale, a Welsh-born viola player, with whom Reed soon performed in such makeshift groups as the Warlocks and the Primitives.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">They were joined by a friend of Reed's from Syracuse, guitarist-bassist Sterling Morrison; and by an acquaintance of Morrison's, drummer Maureen Tucker, who tapped out simple, hypnotic rhythms while playing standing up. They renamed themselves the Velvet Underground after a Michael Leigh book about the sexual subculture. By the mid-1960s, they were rehearsing at Warhol's "Factory," a meeting ground of art, music, orgies, drug parties and screen tests for films that ended up being projected onto the band while it performed, part of what Warhol called the "Floating Plastic Inevitable."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Warhol was the great catalyst," Reed told BOMB magazine in 1998. "It all revolved around him. It all happened very much because of him. He was like a swirl, and these things would come into being: Lo and behold multimedia. There it was. No one really thought about it, it was just fun."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Before the Velvets, references to drugs and sex were often brief and indirect, if only to ensure a chance at radio and television play. In 1967, the year of the Velvets' first album, the Rolling Stones were pressured to sing the title of their latest single as "Let's Spend Some Time Together" instead of "Let's Spend the Night Together" when they were performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The Doors fought with Sullivan over the word "higher" from "Light My Fire."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The Velvets said everything other bands were forbidden to say and some things other bands never imagined. Reed wrote some of rock's most explicit lyrics about drugs ("Heroin," ''Waiting for My Man"), sadomasochism ("Venus in Furs") and prostitution ("There She Goes Again"). His love songs were less stories of boy-meets-girl, than ambiguous studies of the heart, like the philosophical games of "Some Kinda Love" or the weary ballad "Pale Blue Eyes," an elegy for an old girlfriend and a confession to a post-breakup fling:</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It was good what we did yesterday</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">And I'd do it once again</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The fact that you are married</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Only proves you're my best friend</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">But it's truly, truly a sin</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Away from the Factory, the Velvets and were all too ahead of their time, getting tossed out of clubs or having audience members walk out. The mainstream press, still seeking a handle on the Beatles and the Stones, was thrown entirely by the Velvet Underground. The New York Times at first couldn't find the words, calling the Velvets "Warhol's jazz band" in a January 1966 story and "a combination of rock 'n roll and Egyptian belly-dance music" just days later. The Velvets' appearance in a Warhol film, "More Milk, Yvette," only added to the dismay of Times critic Bosley Crowther.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Also on the bill is a performance by a group of rock 'n' roll singers called the Velvet Underground," Crowther wrote. "They bang away at their electronic equipment, while random movies are thrown on the screen in back of them. When will somebody ennoble Mr. Warhol with an above-ground movie called 'For Crying Out Loud'?"</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">At Warhol's suggestion, they performed and recorded with the sultry, German-born Nico, a "chanteuse" who sang lead on a handful of songs from their debut album. A storm cloud over 1967's Summer of Love, "The Velvet Underground &amp; Nico" featured a now-iconic Warhol drawing of a (peelable) banana on the cover and proved an uncanny musical extension of Warhol's blank-faced aura. The Velvets juxtaposed childlike melodies with dry, affectless vocals on "Sunday Morning" and "Femme Fatale." On "Heroin," Cale's viola screeched and jumped behind Reed's obliterating junkie's journey, with his sacred vow, "Herrrrrr-o-in, it's my wife, and it's my life," and his cry into the void, "And I guess that I just don't know."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"'Heroin' is the Velvets' masterpiece — seven minutes of excruciating spiritual extremity," wrote critic Ellen Willis. "No other work of art I know about has made the junkie's experience so horrible, so powerful, so appealing; listening to 'Heroin' I feel simultaneously impelled to somehow save this man and to reach for the needle."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed made just three more albums with the Velvet Underground before leaving in 1970. Cale was pushed out by Reed in 1968 (they had a long history of animosity) and was replaced by Doug Yule. Their sound turned more accessible, and the final album with Reed, "Loaded," included two upbeat musical anthems, "Rock and Roll" and "Sweet Jane," in which Reed seemed to warn Velvets fans — and himself — that "there's even some evil mothers/Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He lived many lives in the '70s, initially moving back home and working at his father's office, then competing with Keith Richards as the rock star most likely to die. He binged on drugs and alcohol, gained weight, lost even more and was described by critic Lester Bangs as "so transcendently emaciated he had indeed become insectival." Reed simulated shooting heroin during concerts, cursed out journalists and once slugged David Bowie when Bowie suggested he clean up his life.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Lou Reed is the guy that gave dignity and poetry and rock 'n' roll to smack, speed, homosexuality, sadomasochism, murder, misogyny, stumblebum passivity, and suicide," wrote Bangs, a dedicated fan and fearless detractor, "and then proceeded to belie all his achievements and return to the mire by turning the whole thing into a monumental bad joke with himself as the woozily insistent Henny Youngman in the center ring, mumbling punch lines that kept losing their punch."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">His albums in the '70s were alternately praised as daring experiments or mocked as embarrassing failures, whether the ambitious song suite "Berlin" or the wholly experimental "Metal Machine Music," an hour of electronic feedback. But in the 1980s, he kicked drugs and released a series of acclaimed albums, including "The Blue Mask," ''Legendary Hearts" and "New Sensations."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">He played some reunion shows with the Velvet Underground and in 1990 teamed with Cale for "Drella," a spare tribute to Warhol. He continued to receive strong reviews in the 1990s and after for such albums as "Set the Twilight Reeling." And "Ecstasy" and he continued to test new ground, whether a 2002 concept album about Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," or a 2011 collaboration with Metallica, "Lulu."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Reed fancied dictionary language like "capricious" and "harridan," but he found special magic in the word "bells," sounding from above, "up in the sky," as he sang on the Velvets' "What Goes On." A personal favorite was the title track from a 1979 album, "The Bells." Over a foggy swirl of synthesizers and horns, suggesting a haunted house on skid row, Reed improvised a fairy tale about a stage actor who leaves work late at night and takes in a chiming, urban "Milky Way."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">It was really not so cute</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">to play without a parachute</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">As he stood upon the ledge</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Looking out, he thought he saw a brook</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">And he hollered, 'Look, there are the bells!'</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">And he sang out, 'Here come the bells!</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Here come the bells! Here come the bells!</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Here come the bells!'</p><!-- SourceOrganizationStart --><span id="sourceOrganization" class="source-org vcard">Associated Press</span><!-- SourceOrganizationEnd -->Source: <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-27-Obit-Lou%20Reed/id-6716c629b45d41899675b697fc7d0e14">http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-27-Obit-Lou%20Reed/id-6716c629b45d41899675b697fc7d0e14</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://derals01.bcz.com/2013/10/23/potty-training-tips-for-boys/">pauly d</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://reona01.snappages.com/blog/2013/10/19/fat-burning-supplements-for-men-by-nick-pineault">clemson football</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://filani01.beep.com/index.htm">New 100 Dollar Bill</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.migente.com/your_page/blog/view_posting.html?pid=4278588&profile_id=8156630&profile_name=ujin01&user_id=8156630&username=ujin01">the league</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.tested.com/forums/general-discussion/458674-fat-burning-workouts-for-men-by-nick-pineault/">Vma Miley Cyrus</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b004a4f3e970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-25T07:31:08Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b004a4f3b970cWebsite contractors point fingers at Obama admin.http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-25T07:31:07Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88 <p>From left, Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI Federal; Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI; Lynn Spellecy, corporate counsel for Equifax Workforce Solutions; and John Lau, program director for Serco, listen to questioning on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>From left, Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI Federal; Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI; Lynn Spellecy, corporate counsel for Equifax Workforce Solutions; and John Lau, program director for Serco, listen to questioning on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI listens at left as Andy Slavitt, representing QSSI's parent company, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>Lynn Spellecy, corporate counsel for Equifax Workforce Solutions testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>Andy Allison, director of the Division of Medical Services at the Department of Human Services, answers legislators' questions about expansion of the Medicaid program in Arkansas during a joint meeting of the House and Senate Committees on Public Health, Welfare and Labor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)</p> <p>Rep. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, looks through Medicaid-related material during a joint meeting of the House and Senate Committees on Public Health, Welfare and Labor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content"><span id="dateLine" class="dateline">WASHINGTON</span> (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration's health insurance marketplace said Thursday the site's crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just prior to going live.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Who's to blame? The first congressional hearing into what went wrong dug into issues of website architecture and testing protocols — but also re-stoked the partisan battle over President Barack Obama's signature expansion of health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. Republicans who've been trying to kill the program the past three years sounded outraged that it is being poorly carried out, while Democrats jeered them as political hypocrites.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">What was clear after more than four hours of testimony was that the contractors had only partial answers, and only the Obama administration can eventually put the entire picture together to explain the botched rollout.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Better times are coming, said executives from CGI Federal, which built the HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states, and from QSSI, which created a component that helps verify applicants' incomes and other personal details. They said problems are being fixed daily and expressed optimism that anybody who wants coverage will able to get it by Jan. 1.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"The system is working, people are enrolling," said CGI vice president Cheryl Campbell. "But people will be able to enroll at a faster pace."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Asked for a timetable, she side-stepped, saying: "I don't like to raise expectations."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The online insurance markets were meant to be the portal to coverage for people who don't get health benefits on the job. Middle-class people are to pick from subsidized private insurance plans, while low-income people are steered to Medicaid in states that have agreed to expand that safety-net program. But the administration is now urging consumers to apply via call centers or on paper forms as the website problems are being addressed.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Lack of testing was the main thread emerging from Thursday's hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">But questions were also raised about a decision by the administration to not allow window shopping, as e-commerce sites generally do. Requiring consumers to open accounts and calculate subsidies before they could shop greatly increased the volume of traffic. That precipitated the crash of an accounts registration feature that became an early bottleneck. The site is now allowing limited window shopping.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"It's certainly not perfect but getting better by the day," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in Phoenix.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"We now have 700,000 applications that have been submitted for health insurance. We intend to make sure those folks get the coverage they need," she said.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">At Thursday's House hearing, the contractors said they each tested their own components independently but that the Health and Human Services Department was responsible for testing the whole system from end to end. That kind of testing didn't happen until the last couple of weeks before the system's Oct. 1 launch.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Representing QSSI, Andrew Slavitt told the committee that ideally, end-to-end testing should have occurred well before that, with enough time to correct flaws.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">How much time?</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Months would be nice," said Slavitt.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"We would have loved to have months," concurred CGI's Campbell.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The administration has acknowledged it did not test enough, and that that contributed to the problems.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The focus on the contractors is just a first step for re-energized GOP investigators. After the failure of their drive to defund "Obamacare" by shutting down the government, Republicans have been handed a new opportunity by the administration in the signup problems. Administration officials, including Sebelius, are to testify next week.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"This is not about blame," committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said as he opened the hearing. But he and other Republicans wasted little time in castigating the administration for having repeatedly assured Congress before the launch that everything was on track.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Are they simply incompetent, or were they lying to the American people?" said Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Democrats shot back that Republicans have no objectivity when it comes to the law. "We have already documented a record of Republicans trying to sabotage the Affordable Care Act," said ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California, citing not only the defunding effort in Congress but state-level campaigns to discourage enrollment.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Another Democrat, New Jersey's Frank Pallone, dismissed the hearing as a "monkey court."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">What motivated the administration to delay the window shopping feature remained an unresolved question. QSSI's Slavitt testified it came as a "late decision."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Speaking for the administration, Julie Bataille, director of Medicare's office of communications, told reporters Thursday without elaboration that it was a "business decision." The Medicare agency is responsible for running the health care overhaul.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">E-commerce sites, including Medicare.gov, routinely allow anonymous shopping, and customers set up accounts when they check out. Health and Human Services spokeswoman Joanne Peters said recently that window shopping wouldn't have let consumers first see if they were eligible for tax credits. The credits amount to a discount off the sticker price of premiums.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Without citing any evidence, some Republicans suggested the administration's motivation was political. "This browsable website was turned off to hide the costs," said Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., sought to debunk that.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Are you aware of any political intervention by this White House relating to your work on HealthCare.gov?" he asked Campbell.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"I am not," she responded.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">QSSI's Slavitt said the decision had technical implications. It increased the website's workload, contributing to the failure of an accounts registration function that his company was in charge of. Requiring the merely curious to create accounts "may have driven higher simultaneous usage of the registration system that wouldn't have occurred if consumers could window-shop anonymously," he said.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Slavitt added that accounts registration snags are being cleared up. And HHS has since incorporated a rudimentary window shopping feature to HealthCare.gov</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Meanwhile, Slavitt and the administration both are saying that another, even more important component designed by QSSI is working well. It's the website's virtual back room, known as the federal data hub, which plays a crucial role in verifying applicants' identity, immigration status and income.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Associated Press writers Jack Gillum in Washington and Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed to this report.</p><!-- SourceOrganizationStart --><span id="sourceOrganization" class="source-org vcard">Associated Press</span><!-- SourceOrganizationEnd -->Source: <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-24-US-Health-Overhaul-Problems/id-c4482e21c54645eaacc544a6223bead5">http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-24-US-Health-Overhaul-Problems/id-c4482e21c54645eaacc544a6223bead5</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://www.hotfrog.com/Companies/John-Baethke-Son">foxnews</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3714376196/john-baethke--son-plumbing-inc-chicago">Obama Syria</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.myhuckleberry.com/account/edit-listing.aspx">Whitey Bulger</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://finditnow.com/businesses/Business-Consulting-Professional-Services/35488445-Vape-World?directory=FindItNow%3ALocal+Directory%3ABusiness-Consulting-Professional-Services">Karen Black</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.thumbtack.com/Personal-Injury-Attorney-Lake-Oswego-OR/service/522801">irina shayk</a> &nbsp; <p>From left, Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI Federal; Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI; Lynn Spellecy, corporate counsel for Equifax Workforce Solutions; and John Lau, program director for Serco, listen to questioning on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>From left, Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI Federal; Andrew Slavitt, group executive vice president for Optum/QSSI; Lynn Spellecy, corporate counsel for Equifax Workforce Solutions; and John Lau, program director for Serco, listen to questioning on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI listens at left as Andy Slavitt, representing QSSI's parent company, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>Lynn Spellecy, corporate counsel for Equifax Workforce Solutions testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)</p> <p>Andy Allison, director of the Division of Medical Services at the Department of Human Services, answers legislators' questions about expansion of the Medicaid program in Arkansas during a joint meeting of the House and Senate Committees on Public Health, Welfare and Labor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)</p> <p>Rep. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, looks through Medicaid-related material during a joint meeting of the House and Senate Committees on Public Health, Welfare and Labor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)</p> <p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content"><span id="dateLine" class="dateline">WASHINGTON</span> (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration's health insurance marketplace said Thursday the site's crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just prior to going live.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Who's to blame? The first congressional hearing into what went wrong dug into issues of website architecture and testing protocols — but also re-stoked the partisan battle over President Barack Obama's signature expansion of health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. Republicans who've been trying to kill the program the past three years sounded outraged that it is being poorly carried out, while Democrats jeered them as political hypocrites.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">What was clear after more than four hours of testimony was that the contractors had only partial answers, and only the Obama administration can eventually put the entire picture together to explain the botched rollout.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Better times are coming, said executives from CGI Federal, which built the HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states, and from QSSI, which created a component that helps verify applicants' incomes and other personal details. They said problems are being fixed daily and expressed optimism that anybody who wants coverage will able to get it by Jan. 1.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"The system is working, people are enrolling," said CGI vice president Cheryl Campbell. "But people will be able to enroll at a faster pace."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Asked for a timetable, she side-stepped, saying: "I don't like to raise expectations."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The online insurance markets were meant to be the portal to coverage for people who don't get health benefits on the job. Middle-class people are to pick from subsidized private insurance plans, while low-income people are steered to Medicaid in states that have agreed to expand that safety-net program. But the administration is now urging consumers to apply via call centers or on paper forms as the website problems are being addressed.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Lack of testing was the main thread emerging from Thursday's hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">But questions were also raised about a decision by the administration to not allow window shopping, as e-commerce sites generally do. Requiring consumers to open accounts and calculate subsidies before they could shop greatly increased the volume of traffic. That precipitated the crash of an accounts registration feature that became an early bottleneck. The site is now allowing limited window shopping.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"It's certainly not perfect but getting better by the day," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in Phoenix.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"We now have 700,000 applications that have been submitted for health insurance. We intend to make sure those folks get the coverage they need," she said.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">At Thursday's House hearing, the contractors said they each tested their own components independently but that the Health and Human Services Department was responsible for testing the whole system from end to end. That kind of testing didn't happen until the last couple of weeks before the system's Oct. 1 launch.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Representing QSSI, Andrew Slavitt told the committee that ideally, end-to-end testing should have occurred well before that, with enough time to correct flaws.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">How much time?</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Months would be nice," said Slavitt.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"We would have loved to have months," concurred CGI's Campbell.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The administration has acknowledged it did not test enough, and that that contributed to the problems.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">The focus on the contractors is just a first step for re-energized GOP investigators. After the failure of their drive to defund "Obamacare" by shutting down the government, Republicans have been handed a new opportunity by the administration in the signup problems. Administration officials, including Sebelius, are to testify next week.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"This is not about blame," committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said as he opened the hearing. But he and other Republicans wasted little time in castigating the administration for having repeatedly assured Congress before the launch that everything was on track.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Are they simply incompetent, or were they lying to the American people?" said Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Democrats shot back that Republicans have no objectivity when it comes to the law. "We have already documented a record of Republicans trying to sabotage the Affordable Care Act," said ranking Democrat Henry Waxman of California, citing not only the defunding effort in Congress but state-level campaigns to discourage enrollment.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Another Democrat, New Jersey's Frank Pallone, dismissed the hearing as a "monkey court."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">What motivated the administration to delay the window shopping feature remained an unresolved question. QSSI's Slavitt testified it came as a "late decision."</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Speaking for the administration, Julie Bataille, director of Medicare's office of communications, told reporters Thursday without elaboration that it was a "business decision." The Medicare agency is responsible for running the health care overhaul.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">E-commerce sites, including Medicare.gov, routinely allow anonymous shopping, and customers set up accounts when they check out. Health and Human Services spokeswoman Joanne Peters said recently that window shopping wouldn't have let consumers first see if they were eligible for tax credits. The credits amount to a discount off the sticker price of premiums.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Without citing any evidence, some Republicans suggested the administration's motivation was political. "This browsable website was turned off to hide the costs," said Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., sought to debunk that.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"Are you aware of any political intervention by this White House relating to your work on HealthCare.gov?" he asked Campbell.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">"I am not," she responded.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">QSSI's Slavitt said the decision had technical implications. It increased the website's workload, contributing to the failure of an accounts registration function that his company was in charge of. Requiring the merely curious to create accounts "may have driven higher simultaneous usage of the registration system that wouldn't have occurred if consumers could window-shop anonymously," he said.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Slavitt added that accounts registration snags are being cleared up. And HHS has since incorporated a rudimentary window shopping feature to HealthCare.gov</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Meanwhile, Slavitt and the administration both are saying that another, even more important component designed by QSSI is working well. It's the website's virtual back room, known as the federal data hub, which plays a crucial role in verifying applicants' identity, immigration status and income.</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">___</p><p class="ap_para ap_para-d57851005a80479aaeeb90a12c70b9f6 entry-content">Associated Press writers Jack Gillum in Washington and Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed to this report.</p><!-- SourceOrganizationStart --><span id="sourceOrganization" class="source-org vcard">Associated Press</span><!-- SourceOrganizationEnd -->Source: <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-24-US-Health-Overhaul-Problems/id-c4482e21c54645eaacc544a6223bead5">http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2013-10-24-US-Health-Overhaul-Problems/id-c4482e21c54645eaacc544a6223bead5</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://www.hotfrog.com/Companies/John-Baethke-Son">foxnews</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3714376196/john-baethke--son-plumbing-inc-chicago">Obama Syria</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.myhuckleberry.com/account/edit-listing.aspx">Whitey Bulger</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://finditnow.com/businesses/Business-Consulting-Professional-Services/35488445-Vape-World?directory=FindItNow%3ALocal+Directory%3ABusiness-Consulting-Professional-Services">Karen Black</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.thumbtack.com/Personal-Injury-Attorney-Lake-Oswego-OR/service/522801">irina shayk</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b0037ec58970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-22T19:14:41Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b0037ec55970cA fresh solution for the lindane problemhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-22T19:14:41Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<head><title>A fresh solution for the lindane problem</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use."/><meta name="keywords" content="Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences Industrial Engineering/Chemistry Technology/Engineering/Computer Science Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering Nanotechnology/Micromachines"/><meta name="date" content="Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content="Chemosphere"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Elhuyar Fundazioa"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="europe"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="90.2902973396"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>22-Oct-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: Aitziber Lasa<br/>a.lasa@elhuyar.com<br/>34-943-363-040<br/><span class="relinst">Elhuyar Fundazioa</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use.</h2> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>For many years two companies located in Bizkaia, Bilbao Chemicals (Barakaldo 1947-1987) and Nexana (Erandio 1952-1982), had been manufacturing lindane and dumping it into the environment with no control whatsoever. Today we have become aware of the need to solve the problems caused by this dumping and the difficulty in achieving this since there is no viable process that will safely destroy the lindane mixed with the soil. A study by the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry in collaboration with Tecnalia has confirmed the hypothesis of the high reactive capacity of iron nanoparticles to degrade lindane. The study has been published in the prestigious journal <i>Chemosphere</i>. </p>&#13; <p>Lindane has been routinely used among farmers as an insecticide and pesticide, and although its use has now been banned, the consequences of lindane manufacture and use have not disappeared. The risk posed by lindane lies in the fact that it is not only toxic, it can be accumulated in living organisms. From an environmental point of view, it has low solubility, high stability and high persistence and resistance to degradation in the environment. </p>&#13; <p>Although there is as yet no viable process for safely destroying lindane, an innovative, efficient alternative is to use iron nanoparticles. Iron nanoparticles have shown themselves to be very effective as a decontaminating agent when it comes to handling various families of highly toxic compounds like lindane. However, they have a number of drawbacks that limit and hamper their application, since they oxidize easily in the presence of air and their tendency to agglomerate limits their mobility in the medium in which one is seeking to apply them. So the need to protect them is done by using Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), polyaspartate (PAP) and poly (acrylic acid) (PAA) as biodegradable polymer coatings.</p>&#13; <p><b>From the laboratory to the land</b></p>&#13; <p>"The main aim of our study was to validate on a laboratory scale whether these iron nanoparticles can be applied and whether they have the capacity to eliminate the lindane," explained Itxaso San Romn, member of the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. This requires advanced analytical techniques capable of monitoring the degradation process, which will take place in the presence of the various nanoparticles, determining the speed of the reaction and likewise detecting the possible by-products that are formed in the course of that reaction. </p>&#13; <p>The process to degrade the contaminant itself was evaluated by analysing samples of water containing lindane using the technique called solid-phase extraction (SPE). That way the lindane remaining in the solution was measured over time. Likewise, the technique involving solid-phase microextraction (SPME) was used to detect the gas by-products generated during the degradation at each moment in the study by means of gas chromatography with a mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detector. </p>&#13; <p>Through the techniques employed it was possible to compare and study the effectiveness of the various types of nanoparticles used to degrade the lindane and to find out the reaction speed in each case. The study showed how the lindane gradually disappeared in the presence of the nanoparticles over time (between 1 and 72 hours), revealing various reaction tendencies and speeds. "The protection of the nanoparticles increases the effectiveness of the degradation of the lindane and also prevents the agglomeration of the nanoparticles; the result is a greater reaction surface," pointed out Itxaso San Romn. However, "as the lindane concentration in water diminished over time, other less harmful by-products were seen to appear; as time passes these will probably be transformed into more innocuous compounds," she said. That way "both the coated and uncoated nanoparticles have been shown to be capable of transforming the lindane into other less harmful products," stressed San Romn. "This fact provides valuable information for applying them in the future as a decontaminating tool in real environmental matrices," she added. </p>&#13; <p>###</p>&#13; <p><b>About the author:</b></p>&#13; <p>Itxaso San Romn is a researcher at the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. The research referred to was conducted in collaboration with the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and the Tecnalia Corporation.&#13; </p>&#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body><html readability="32.8823986028"><head><title>A fresh solution for the lindane problem</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use."/><meta name="keywords" content="Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences Industrial Engineering/Chemistry Technology/Engineering/Computer Science Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering Nanotechnology/Micromachines"/><meta name="date" content="Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content="Chemosphere"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Elhuyar Fundazioa"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="europe"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="90.2902973396"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>22-Oct-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: Aitziber Lasa<br/>a.lasa@elhuyar.com<br/>34-943-363-040<br/><span class="relinst">Elhuyar Fundazioa</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use.</h2> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>For many years two companies located in Bizkaia, Bilbao Chemicals (Barakaldo 1947-1987) and Nexana (Erandio 1952-1982), had been manufacturing lindane and dumping it into the environment with no control whatsoever. Today we have become aware of the need to solve the problems caused by this dumping and the difficulty in achieving this since there is no viable process that will safely destroy the lindane mixed with the soil. A study by the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry in collaboration with Tecnalia has confirmed the hypothesis of the high reactive capacity of iron nanoparticles to degrade lindane. The study has been published in the prestigious journal <i>Chemosphere</i>. </p>&#13; <p>Lindane has been routinely used among farmers as an insecticide and pesticide, and although its use has now been banned, the consequences of lindane manufacture and use have not disappeared. The risk posed by lindane lies in the fact that it is not only toxic, it can be accumulated in living organisms. From an environmental point of view, it has low solubility, high stability and high persistence and resistance to degradation in the environment. </p>&#13; <p>Although there is as yet no viable process for safely destroying lindane, an innovative, efficient alternative is to use iron nanoparticles. Iron nanoparticles have shown themselves to be very effective as a decontaminating agent when it comes to handling various families of highly toxic compounds like lindane. However, they have a number of drawbacks that limit and hamper their application, since they oxidize easily in the presence of air and their tendency to agglomerate limits their mobility in the medium in which one is seeking to apply them. So the need to protect them is done by using Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), polyaspartate (PAP) and poly (acrylic acid) (PAA) as biodegradable polymer coatings.</p>&#13; <p><b>From the laboratory to the land</b></p>&#13; <p>"The main aim of our study was to validate on a laboratory scale whether these iron nanoparticles can be applied and whether they have the capacity to eliminate the lindane," explained Itxaso San Romn, member of the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. This requires advanced analytical techniques capable of monitoring the degradation process, which will take place in the presence of the various nanoparticles, determining the speed of the reaction and likewise detecting the possible by-products that are formed in the course of that reaction. </p>&#13; <p>The process to degrade the contaminant itself was evaluated by analysing samples of water containing lindane using the technique called solid-phase extraction (SPE). That way the lindane remaining in the solution was measured over time. Likewise, the technique involving solid-phase microextraction (SPME) was used to detect the gas by-products generated during the degradation at each moment in the study by means of gas chromatography with a mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detector. </p>&#13; <p>Through the techniques employed it was possible to compare and study the effectiveness of the various types of nanoparticles used to degrade the lindane and to find out the reaction speed in each case. The study showed how the lindane gradually disappeared in the presence of the nanoparticles over time (between 1 and 72 hours), revealing various reaction tendencies and speeds. "The protection of the nanoparticles increases the effectiveness of the degradation of the lindane and also prevents the agglomeration of the nanoparticles; the result is a greater reaction surface," pointed out Itxaso San Romn. However, "as the lindane concentration in water diminished over time, other less harmful by-products were seen to appear; as time passes these will probably be transformed into more innocuous compounds," she said. That way "both the coated and uncoated nanoparticles have been shown to be capable of transforming the lindane into other less harmful products," stressed San Romn. "This fact provides valuable information for applying them in the future as a decontaminating tool in real environmental matrices," she added. </p>&#13; <p>###</p>&#13; <p><b>About the author:</b></p>&#13; <p>Itxaso San Romn is a researcher at the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. The research referred to was conducted in collaboration with the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and the Tecnalia Corporation.&#13; </p>&#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body></html>Source: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/ef-afs102213.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/ef-afs102213.php</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://remarkable.localbusinesses.co.nz/42263874-2013-10-08/">tom brady</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://superior.localbusinesses.co.nz/41285461-2013-10-08/">Lane Kiffin</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://select.localbusinesses.co.nz/19467096-2013-10-08/">Cameron Douglas</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://proven.localbusinesses.co.nz/41307773-2013-10-08/">Bobby Cannavale</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://superb.localbusinesses.co.nz/27946480-2013-10-08/">gucci mane</a> &nbsp; <head><title>A fresh solution for the lindane problem</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use."/><meta name="keywords" content="Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences Industrial Engineering/Chemistry Technology/Engineering/Computer Science Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering Nanotechnology/Micromachines"/><meta name="date" content="Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content="Chemosphere"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Elhuyar Fundazioa"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="europe"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="90.2902973396"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>22-Oct-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: Aitziber Lasa<br/>a.lasa@elhuyar.com<br/>34-943-363-040<br/><span class="relinst">Elhuyar Fundazioa</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use.</h2> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>For many years two companies located in Bizkaia, Bilbao Chemicals (Barakaldo 1947-1987) and Nexana (Erandio 1952-1982), had been manufacturing lindane and dumping it into the environment with no control whatsoever. Today we have become aware of the need to solve the problems caused by this dumping and the difficulty in achieving this since there is no viable process that will safely destroy the lindane mixed with the soil. A study by the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry in collaboration with Tecnalia has confirmed the hypothesis of the high reactive capacity of iron nanoparticles to degrade lindane. The study has been published in the prestigious journal <i>Chemosphere</i>. </p>&#13; <p>Lindane has been routinely used among farmers as an insecticide and pesticide, and although its use has now been banned, the consequences of lindane manufacture and use have not disappeared. The risk posed by lindane lies in the fact that it is not only toxic, it can be accumulated in living organisms. From an environmental point of view, it has low solubility, high stability and high persistence and resistance to degradation in the environment. </p>&#13; <p>Although there is as yet no viable process for safely destroying lindane, an innovative, efficient alternative is to use iron nanoparticles. Iron nanoparticles have shown themselves to be very effective as a decontaminating agent when it comes to handling various families of highly toxic compounds like lindane. However, they have a number of drawbacks that limit and hamper their application, since they oxidize easily in the presence of air and their tendency to agglomerate limits their mobility in the medium in which one is seeking to apply them. So the need to protect them is done by using Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), polyaspartate (PAP) and poly (acrylic acid) (PAA) as biodegradable polymer coatings.</p>&#13; <p><b>From the laboratory to the land</b></p>&#13; <p>"The main aim of our study was to validate on a laboratory scale whether these iron nanoparticles can be applied and whether they have the capacity to eliminate the lindane," explained Itxaso San Romn, member of the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. This requires advanced analytical techniques capable of monitoring the degradation process, which will take place in the presence of the various nanoparticles, determining the speed of the reaction and likewise detecting the possible by-products that are formed in the course of that reaction. </p>&#13; <p>The process to degrade the contaminant itself was evaluated by analysing samples of water containing lindane using the technique called solid-phase extraction (SPE). That way the lindane remaining in the solution was measured over time. Likewise, the technique involving solid-phase microextraction (SPME) was used to detect the gas by-products generated during the degradation at each moment in the study by means of gas chromatography with a mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detector. </p>&#13; <p>Through the techniques employed it was possible to compare and study the effectiveness of the various types of nanoparticles used to degrade the lindane and to find out the reaction speed in each case. The study showed how the lindane gradually disappeared in the presence of the nanoparticles over time (between 1 and 72 hours), revealing various reaction tendencies and speeds. "The protection of the nanoparticles increases the effectiveness of the degradation of the lindane and also prevents the agglomeration of the nanoparticles; the result is a greater reaction surface," pointed out Itxaso San Romn. However, "as the lindane concentration in water diminished over time, other less harmful by-products were seen to appear; as time passes these will probably be transformed into more innocuous compounds," she said. That way "both the coated and uncoated nanoparticles have been shown to be capable of transforming the lindane into other less harmful products," stressed San Romn. "This fact provides valuable information for applying them in the future as a decontaminating tool in real environmental matrices," she added. </p>&#13; <p>###</p>&#13; <p><b>About the author:</b></p>&#13; <p>Itxaso San Romn is a researcher at the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. The research referred to was conducted in collaboration with the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and the Tecnalia Corporation.&#13; </p>&#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body><html readability="32.8823986028"><head><title>A fresh solution for the lindane problem</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/><meta name="description" content="The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use."/><meta name="keywords" content="Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences Industrial Engineering/Chemistry Technology/Engineering/Computer Science Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering Nanotechnology/Micromachines"/><meta name="date" content="Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content="Chemosphere"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Elhuyar Fundazioa"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="europe"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="90.2902973396"> <img align="right" width="140" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> <p><strong class="relemb"><p>PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:</p> <p>22-Oct-2013</p></strong></p> [ | E-mail ] <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --><p>Contact: Aitziber Lasa<br/>a.lasa@elhuyar.com<br/>34-943-363-040<br/><span class="relinst">Elhuyar Fundazioa</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia are seeking fresh solutions by means of iron nanoparticles to eliminate the consequences of lindane manufacture and use.</h2> <!-- Begin image here --> <!-- End image here --><p>For many years two companies located in Bizkaia, Bilbao Chemicals (Barakaldo 1947-1987) and Nexana (Erandio 1952-1982), had been manufacturing lindane and dumping it into the environment with no control whatsoever. Today we have become aware of the need to solve the problems caused by this dumping and the difficulty in achieving this since there is no viable process that will safely destroy the lindane mixed with the soil. A study by the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry in collaboration with Tecnalia has confirmed the hypothesis of the high reactive capacity of iron nanoparticles to degrade lindane. The study has been published in the prestigious journal <i>Chemosphere</i>. </p>&#13; <p>Lindane has been routinely used among farmers as an insecticide and pesticide, and although its use has now been banned, the consequences of lindane manufacture and use have not disappeared. The risk posed by lindane lies in the fact that it is not only toxic, it can be accumulated in living organisms. From an environmental point of view, it has low solubility, high stability and high persistence and resistance to degradation in the environment. </p>&#13; <p>Although there is as yet no viable process for safely destroying lindane, an innovative, efficient alternative is to use iron nanoparticles. Iron nanoparticles have shown themselves to be very effective as a decontaminating agent when it comes to handling various families of highly toxic compounds like lindane. However, they have a number of drawbacks that limit and hamper their application, since they oxidize easily in the presence of air and their tendency to agglomerate limits their mobility in the medium in which one is seeking to apply them. So the need to protect them is done by using Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), polyaspartate (PAP) and poly (acrylic acid) (PAA) as biodegradable polymer coatings.</p>&#13; <p><b>From the laboratory to the land</b></p>&#13; <p>"The main aim of our study was to validate on a laboratory scale whether these iron nanoparticles can be applied and whether they have the capacity to eliminate the lindane," explained Itxaso San Romn, member of the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. This requires advanced analytical techniques capable of monitoring the degradation process, which will take place in the presence of the various nanoparticles, determining the speed of the reaction and likewise detecting the possible by-products that are formed in the course of that reaction. </p>&#13; <p>The process to degrade the contaminant itself was evaluated by analysing samples of water containing lindane using the technique called solid-phase extraction (SPE). That way the lindane remaining in the solution was measured over time. Likewise, the technique involving solid-phase microextraction (SPME) was used to detect the gas by-products generated during the degradation at each moment in the study by means of gas chromatography with a mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detector. </p>&#13; <p>Through the techniques employed it was possible to compare and study the effectiveness of the various types of nanoparticles used to degrade the lindane and to find out the reaction speed in each case. The study showed how the lindane gradually disappeared in the presence of the nanoparticles over time (between 1 and 72 hours), revealing various reaction tendencies and speeds. "The protection of the nanoparticles increases the effectiveness of the degradation of the lindane and also prevents the agglomeration of the nanoparticles; the result is a greater reaction surface," pointed out Itxaso San Romn. However, "as the lindane concentration in water diminished over time, other less harmful by-products were seen to appear; as time passes these will probably be transformed into more innocuous compounds," she said. That way "both the coated and uncoated nanoparticles have been shown to be capable of transforming the lindane into other less harmful products," stressed San Romn. "This fact provides valuable information for applying them in the future as a decontaminating tool in real environmental matrices," she added. </p>&#13; <p>###</p>&#13; <p><b>About the author:</b></p>&#13; <p>Itxaso San Romn is a researcher at the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytical Chemistry. The research referred to was conducted in collaboration with the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry and the Tecnalia Corporation.&#13; </p>&#13; <hr/><img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" align="right" width="140" height="36" border="0" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]"/> [ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> <img src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="Share"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p> </p><p class="disclaimer"><br/><em>AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.</em></p> <br/><!-- footer block --></body></html>Source: <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/ef-afs102213.php">http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/ef-afs102213.php</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://remarkable.localbusinesses.co.nz/42263874-2013-10-08/">tom brady</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://superior.localbusinesses.co.nz/41285461-2013-10-08/">Lane Kiffin</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://select.localbusinesses.co.nz/19467096-2013-10-08/">Cameron Douglas</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://proven.localbusinesses.co.nz/41307773-2013-10-08/">Bobby Cannavale</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://superb.localbusinesses.co.nz/27946480-2013-10-08/">gucci mane</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b0027b7e2970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-20T01:25:45Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b0027b7e0970cA&M QB Manziel Injuredhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-20T01:25:45Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div id="storytext" readability="72"> <p>COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was injured in No. 7 Texas A&amp;M's game against No. 24 Auburn, but has returned after sitting out one series.</p> <p>Manziel was injured when he was tackled on an 8-yard run early in the fourth quarter. It was unclear what his injury was.</p> <p>He got up after the tackle and then went to the ground before he reached the A&amp;M sideline. A&amp;M officials looked at him for a couple of minutes on the turf before he got up and walked off on his own power.</p> <p>He was replaced by Matt Joeckel with A&amp;M leading 31-24. The Aggies made a field goal two plays after he left to make it 34-24.</p> <p>He came back in the game with nine minutes left and Auburn leading 38-34.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=237893873&ft=1&f=">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=237893873&ft=1&f=</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://ubookmark.com/business/grp-rainer-16/">Nothing Was The Same</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://powerspawngaming.com/story.php?title=presseportal-de-grp-rainer-llp">notre dame</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://flickery.net/story.php?title=suchen-grp-rainer-suchergebnisse-grp-rainer-%7C-ihr-presseportal">brian wilson</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bestmortgageandloans.com/News/grp-rainer-%7C-pressemeldungen-online/">George Alexander Louis</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://webindonesia.web.id/software/suchergebnisse-fuer-grp-rainer-%7C-klivio-com/">Deanna Burditt</a> &nbsp; <div id="storytext" readability="72"> <p>COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was injured in No. 7 Texas A&amp;M's game against No. 24 Auburn, but has returned after sitting out one series.</p> <p>Manziel was injured when he was tackled on an 8-yard run early in the fourth quarter. It was unclear what his injury was.</p> <p>He got up after the tackle and then went to the ground before he reached the A&amp;M sideline. A&amp;M officials looked at him for a couple of minutes on the turf before he got up and walked off on his own power.</p> <p>He was replaced by Matt Joeckel with A&amp;M leading 31-24. The Aggies made a field goal two plays after he left to make it 34-24.</p> <p>He came back in the game with nine minutes left and Auburn leading 38-34.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=237893873&ft=1&f=">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=237893873&ft=1&f=</a><br />Tags: <a href="http://ubookmark.com/business/grp-rainer-16/">Nothing Was The Same</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://powerspawngaming.com/story.php?title=presseportal-de-grp-rainer-llp">notre dame</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://flickery.net/story.php?title=suchen-grp-rainer-suchergebnisse-grp-rainer-%7C-ihr-presseportal">brian wilson</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bestmortgageandloans.com/News/grp-rainer-%7C-pressemeldungen-online/">George Alexander Louis</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://webindonesia.web.id/software/suchergebnisse-fuer-grp-rainer-%7C-klivio-com/">Deanna Burditt</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b0017cde5970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-17T13:51:39Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b0017cde2970cU.N. appeals for more troops, helicopters for Mali missionhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-17T13:51:39Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p class="first">UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_6">United Nations</span> appealed on Wednesday for more troops and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_5">helicopters</span> needed so its peacekeeping mission in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_1">Mali</span> can effectively stabilize the north of the country and protect civilians from attacks by Islamist extremist and armed groups.</p> <p> The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_3">U.N.</span> force, known as MINUSMA, assumed authority on July 1 from a U.N.-backed African force in Mali. But while the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_4">U.N. Security Council</span> mandated a 12,600-strong force, there are only some 5,200 troops on the ground.</p> <p> "We are faced with severe challenges," U.N. Mali envoy <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_2">Bert Koenders</span> told the U.N. Security Council. "The mission lacks critical enablers - such as helicopters - to facilitate rapid deployment and access to remote areas to ensure the protection of civilians. Troop generation will have to accelerate."</p> <p> A report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that to reach its authorized strength the force still needs two infantry battalions, an airfield engineer company for the rehabilitation of the airstrips in northern Tessalit and Kidal, an information operations unit and a special forces company.</p> <p> The mission was dealt a blow by the withdrawal in August of some 1,200 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_7">Nigerian troops</span>, who returned home to fight their own homegrown Islamist insurgency. Then last month about 150 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_8">Chadian troops</span> abandoned their posts in protest at the length of time they had served and demanded their rotation be speeded up.</p> <p> Tuareg separatists and Islamist rebels seized three northern regions, covering an area the size of France, last year as the government disintegrated following a March 2012 coup. A successful seven-month-old campaign by France to destroy the Islamist enclave has killed hundreds of fighters linked to al Qaeda.</p> <p> France still has 3,200 soldiers in Mali, aiding the U.N. peacekeepers against Islamist threats, but plans to reduce that number to about 1,000.</p> <p> "It's a success story. When you look at where Mali was last year, it was a country collapsed, it was a country where the terrorists were moving towards the capital," French U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters after Koenders' briefing.</p> <p> "But we have to be vigilant, we know we will face problems down the road, we know that the terrorists have not been eradicated," Araud said.</p> <p> National elections were held in July and August. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a former prime minister, was elected by a landslide with a pledge to reunify the country and restore its pride. Legislative elections are due to take place in November.</p> <p> (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Jackie Frank)</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end -->Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-appeals-more-troops-helicopters-mali-mission-210138672.html">http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-appeals-more-troops-helicopters-mali-mission-210138672.html</a><br />Category: <a href="http://actuafreearticles.com/index.php?page=article&article_id=217436">raiders</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/2e8dddfb-2edf-4813-ad74-6bcf286715f3/">Cressida Bonas</a> &nbsp; <a href="https://www.box.com/s/ewvn7zd0wl9z6xk4z9x3">Sydney Leathers</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://har2q9uwmo.blog.com/2013/02/19/disney-cruise-line-visit-the-mediterranean-coastline/">Bryan Cranston</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://har1q7uwmo.livejournal.com/659.html">Breaking Bad Season 6</a> &nbsp; <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p class="first">UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_6">United Nations</span> appealed on Wednesday for more troops and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_5">helicopters</span> needed so its peacekeeping mission in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_1">Mali</span> can effectively stabilize the north of the country and protect civilians from attacks by Islamist extremist and armed groups.</p> <p> The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_3">U.N.</span> force, known as MINUSMA, assumed authority on July 1 from a U.N.-backed African force in Mali. But while the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_4">U.N. Security Council</span> mandated a 12,600-strong force, there are only some 5,200 troops on the ground.</p> <p> "We are faced with severe challenges," U.N. Mali envoy <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_2">Bert Koenders</span> told the U.N. Security Council. "The mission lacks critical enablers - such as helicopters - to facilitate rapid deployment and access to remote areas to ensure the protection of civilians. Troop generation will have to accelerate."</p> <p> A report by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that to reach its authorized strength the force still needs two infantry battalions, an airfield engineer company for the rehabilitation of the airstrips in northern Tessalit and Kidal, an information operations unit and a special forces company.</p> <p> The mission was dealt a blow by the withdrawal in August of some 1,200 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_7">Nigerian troops</span>, who returned home to fight their own homegrown Islamist insurgency. Then last month about 150 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1381957382997_8">Chadian troops</span> abandoned their posts in protest at the length of time they had served and demanded their rotation be speeded up.</p> <p> Tuareg separatists and Islamist rebels seized three northern regions, covering an area the size of France, last year as the government disintegrated following a March 2012 coup. A successful seven-month-old campaign by France to destroy the Islamist enclave has killed hundreds of fighters linked to al Qaeda.</p> <p> France still has 3,200 soldiers in Mali, aiding the U.N. peacekeepers against Islamist threats, but plans to reduce that number to about 1,000.</p> <p> "It's a success story. When you look at where Mali was last year, it was a country collapsed, it was a country where the terrorists were moving towards the capital," French U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud told reporters after Koenders' briefing.</p> <p> "But we have to be vigilant, we know we will face problems down the road, we know that the terrorists have not been eradicated," Araud said.</p> <p> National elections were held in July and August. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a former prime minister, was elected by a landslide with a pledge to reunify the country and restore its pride. Legislative elections are due to take place in November.</p> <p> (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Jackie Frank)</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end -->Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-appeals-more-troops-helicopters-mali-mission-210138672.html">http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-appeals-more-troops-helicopters-mali-mission-210138672.html</a><br />Category: <a href="http://actuafreearticles.com/index.php?page=article&article_id=217436">raiders</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/2e8dddfb-2edf-4813-ad74-6bcf286715f3/">Cressida Bonas</a> &nbsp; <a href="https://www.box.com/s/ewvn7zd0wl9z6xk4z9x3">Sydney Leathers</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://har2q9uwmo.blog.com/2013/02/19/disney-cruise-line-visit-the-mediterranean-coastline/">Bryan Cranston</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://har1q7uwmo.livejournal.com/659.html">Breaking Bad Season 6</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019b0009c8ca970b Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-15T07:20:49Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019b0009c8c7970bNSA collecting email and messaging contacts worldwide, Yahoo moves to encrypt webmail by defaulthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-15T07:20:48Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div itemprop="text" readability="44.5396458814"> <p class="image-container c1"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/"><img alt="NSA collecting email and messaging contacts worldwide, but Yahoo will finally encrypt webmail by default" data-src-height="416" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/10/nsa-yahoo-surveillance.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Don't think that the NSA's bulk communication data collection is focused solely on the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/28/nyt-nsa-moniters-graphs-some-us-citizens-social-activity-with/">communications</a> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/12/nsa-phone-data-collection-continues/">themselves</a>. The <em>Washington Post</em> has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html">published</a> more <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/09/prism-whistleblower-edward-snowden-reveals-himself-reasons/">Edward Snowden</a> documents which reveal that the agency collects large volumes of contact lists from email and instant messaging users around the world. While the NSA gathers the information on foreign soil, its method reportedly prevents it from automatically screening out any Americans in the list. The NSA and anonymous officials argue that American laws prevent analysts from accessing data unless they believe there's a foreign target hidden with, but the strategy still has the government storing contacts for "millions" of people.</p> <p>Yahoo customers are some of the most common targets of this surveillance, as the company doesn't normally encrypt webmail sessions. That's about to change, however. The internet firm <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html">tells</a> the <em>Post</em> that its webmail service will default to using SSL encryption on January 8th, catching up with Facebook and Google. Yahoo isn't officially tightening its security in response to NSA activity, and using SSL won't necessarily stop interceptions when spies frequently <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/american-and-british-spy-agencies-can-thwart-encryption/">have workarounds</a>. However, the upcoming encryption will at least complicate any snooping -- whether or not it's part of an intelligence operation.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/?ncid=rss_truncated">http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/?ncid=rss_truncated</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://bookmarks.webprominds.com/story.php?title=sitesays-user-suzannakna">GTA Online</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookmarkscube.com/story.php?id=217979">Dreamchasers 3</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookmarktheinternet.com/News/sreedreddd-%7C-user-details-%7C-folkd-com/">Joy Covey</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookmarkwave.com/story.php?title=tagza-com-user-clabolllll-submitted">oprah winfrey</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookybookmarks.com/story.php?title=wilcoleewo-%7C-user-details-%7C-folkd-com">Justin Bieber Spits On Fans</a> &nbsp; <div itemprop="text" readability="44.5396458814"> <p class="image-container c1"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/"><img alt="NSA collecting email and messaging contacts worldwide, but Yahoo will finally encrypt webmail by default" data-src-height="416" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/10/nsa-yahoo-surveillance.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Don't think that the NSA's bulk communication data collection is focused solely on the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/28/nyt-nsa-moniters-graphs-some-us-citizens-social-activity-with/">communications</a> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/12/nsa-phone-data-collection-continues/">themselves</a>. The <em>Washington Post</em> has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html">published</a> more <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/09/prism-whistleblower-edward-snowden-reveals-himself-reasons/">Edward Snowden</a> documents which reveal that the agency collects large volumes of contact lists from email and instant messaging users around the world. While the NSA gathers the information on foreign soil, its method reportedly prevents it from automatically screening out any Americans in the list. The NSA and anonymous officials argue that American laws prevent analysts from accessing data unless they believe there's a foreign target hidden with, but the strategy still has the government storing contacts for "millions" of people.</p> <p>Yahoo customers are some of the most common targets of this surveillance, as the company doesn't normally encrypt webmail sessions. That's about to change, however. The internet firm <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html">tells</a> the <em>Post</em> that its webmail service will default to using SSL encryption on January 8th, catching up with Facebook and Google. Yahoo isn't officially tightening its security in response to NSA activity, and using SSL won't necessarily stop interceptions when spies frequently <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/american-and-british-spy-agencies-can-thwart-encryption/">have workarounds</a>. However, the upcoming encryption will at least complicate any snooping -- whether or not it's part of an intelligence operation.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/?ncid=rss_truncated">http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/?ncid=rss_truncated</a><br />Related Topics: <a href="http://bookmarks.webprominds.com/story.php?title=sitesays-user-suzannakna">GTA Online</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookmarkscube.com/story.php?id=217979">Dreamchasers 3</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookmarktheinternet.com/News/sreedreddd-%7C-user-details-%7C-folkd-com/">Joy Covey</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookmarkwave.com/story.php?title=tagza-com-user-clabolllll-submitted">oprah winfrey</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bookybookmarks.com/story.php?title=wilcoleewo-%7C-user-details-%7C-folkd-com">Justin Bieber Spits On Fans</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019afff8e5c5970c Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-12T19:22:08Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019afff8e5c3970cCamille Grammer undergoes surgery for cancerhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-12T19:22:08Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88 <span class="category">Celebs</span> <img class="avatar" src="http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/May/130506/6C7250254-anna-mug.blocks_desktop_avatar.jpg"/><p>&#13; <span class="byline-name">Anna Chan</span>&#13; <span class="byline-affiliation">TODAY</span>&#13; </p> <p class="time">&#13; <span class="value">20</span> hours ago&#13; </p> <img src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/October/131011/8C9353426-131011-ent-camille-hmed.blocks_desktop_small.jpg" alt="Image: Camille Grammer"/><p> Getty Images</p><p> Camille Grammer had a "radical hysterectomy" after being diagnosed with endometrial cancer, her rep said. </p><p>Former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Camille Grammer "underwent a radical hysterectomy" Friday, Howard Bragman, her representative, told People magazine.</p><p>Bragman said that the 45-year-old reality personality had been diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer. According to the Mayo Clinic, endometrial cancer begins in the uterus, and when discovered early, is often cured by removing the reproductive organ.</p><p>Grammer's "surgery went well and she is expected to make a complete recovery following a significant recuperation period," Bragman said.</p><p>The former model starred on Bravo's hit series "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" in the first two seasons, and appeared in several episodes of season three.</p><p>She was married to "Cheers" and "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer for 14 years. The former couple have two children together via surrogate.</p><p>Just days ago, she tweeted in anticipation of the new season of "RHOBH," which premieres Nov. 4 on Bravo.</p> Source: <a href="http://www.today.com/entertainment/camille-grammer-undergoes-surgery-cancer-8C11380770">http://www.today.com/entertainment/camille-grammer-undergoes-surgery-cancer-8C11380770</a><br />Similar Articles: <a href="http://health.mainportfolio.com/dont-let-sleep-apnea-keep-you-down/">michigan football</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.health-tips.com.au/skin-care-tips-for-women-of-color-2/">breaking bad</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bordeauxmarketinggroup.com/blog/2013/10/10/use-these-suggestions-to-accomplish-online-marketing-success-2/">the league</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://celebs4us.com/looking-your-best-on-your-wedding-day-2/">usain bolt</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://locksmith-blogs.us/having-trouble-finding-good-locksmith-options-consider-these-ideas-2/">Cyclospora</a> &nbsp; <span class="category">Celebs</span> <img class="avatar" src="http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/May/130506/6C7250254-anna-mug.blocks_desktop_avatar.jpg"/><p>&#13; <span class="byline-name">Anna Chan</span>&#13; <span class="byline-affiliation">TODAY</span>&#13; </p> <p class="time">&#13; <span class="value">20</span> hours ago&#13; </p> <img src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/October/131011/8C9353426-131011-ent-camille-hmed.blocks_desktop_small.jpg" alt="Image: Camille Grammer"/><p> Getty Images</p><p> Camille Grammer had a "radical hysterectomy" after being diagnosed with endometrial cancer, her rep said. </p><p>Former "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Camille Grammer "underwent a radical hysterectomy" Friday, Howard Bragman, her representative, told People magazine.</p><p>Bragman said that the 45-year-old reality personality had been diagnosed with early stage endometrial cancer. According to the Mayo Clinic, endometrial cancer begins in the uterus, and when discovered early, is often cured by removing the reproductive organ.</p><p>Grammer's "surgery went well and she is expected to make a complete recovery following a significant recuperation period," Bragman said.</p><p>The former model starred on Bravo's hit series "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" in the first two seasons, and appeared in several episodes of season three.</p><p>She was married to "Cheers" and "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer for 14 years. The former couple have two children together via surrogate.</p><p>Just days ago, she tweeted in anticipation of the new season of "RHOBH," which premieres Nov. 4 on Bravo.</p> Source: <a href="http://www.today.com/entertainment/camille-grammer-undergoes-surgery-cancer-8C11380770">http://www.today.com/entertainment/camille-grammer-undergoes-surgery-cancer-8C11380770</a><br />Similar Articles: <a href="http://health.mainportfolio.com/dont-let-sleep-apnea-keep-you-down/">michigan football</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://www.health-tips.com.au/skin-care-tips-for-women-of-color-2/">breaking bad</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://bordeauxmarketinggroup.com/blog/2013/10/10/use-these-suggestions-to-accomplish-online-marketing-success-2/">the league</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://celebs4us.com/looking-your-best-on-your-wedding-day-2/">usain bolt</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://locksmith-blogs.us/having-trouble-finding-good-locksmith-options-consider-these-ideas-2/">Cyclospora</a> &nbsp; tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d015392218840970bWidertuaugusta88's bloghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e014e8c158e65970d019affeccfa6970d Widertuaugusta88 posted an entry http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-10-11T00:16:29Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a014e8c158e65970d019affeccfa1970dTom Hanks Is 'Captain Phillips' In High-Seas Hostage Dramahttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-10-11T00:16:29Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p014e8c158e65970dWidertuaugusta88http://profile.typepad.com/widertuaugusta88<div id="storytext" readability="210.355661059"> <div id="res230105680" class="bucketwrap image large" previewtitle="Director Paul Greengrass says he thought the film would feel more authentic if it was all shot at sea. He had personal motivations, too: &quot;My father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world,&quot; he says." readability="10.7403035413"> <div class="captionwrap caption" readability="11"> <p>Director Paul Greengrass says he thought the film would feel more authentic if it was all shot at sea. He had personal motivations, too: "My father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world," he says.</p> </div> <span class="creditwrap"><span class="credit">Jasin Boland</span>/<span class="rightsnotice">Columbia Pictures Industries</span></span> <div class="enlarge_html image_data" readability="11"> <p class="caption">Director Paul Greengrass says he thought the film would feel more authentic if it was all shot at sea. He had personal motivations, too: "My father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world," he says.</p> <span class="creditwrap"><span class="credit">Jasin Boland</span>/<span class="rightsnotice">Columbia Pictures Industries</span></span></div> </div> <p>In April 2009, Somali pirates boarded an American-flagged container ship and took its captain, Richard Phillips, hostage on a small lifeboat. That led to a five-day drama at sea, much of it covered on television, as a U.S. Navy destroyer tailed the lifeboat and Navy SEAL sharpshooters eventually freed the captain. In 2010 Phillips wrote a memoir called <em>A Captain's Duty</em> and the harrowing experience has now been adapted into a film called <em>Captain Phillips.</em></p> <p><em>Captain Phillips</em> is directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Tom Hanks, both of whom join <em>Fresh Air</em>'s Dave Davies to talk about the film. Greengrass began his career as a journalist making documentaries, often in war zones. His feature films — including <em>The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Bloody Sunday</em> and <em>United 93</em> — are known for fast-paced action and documentary-like drama. Hanks is a two-time Academy Award winner, getting back-to-back best actor Oscars for <em>Philadelphia</em> and <em>Forrest Gump</em>. He also got Oscar nominations for his roles in <em>Big, Saving Private Ryan</em> and <em>Cast Away</em>.</p> <h3 class="edTag">Interview Highlights</h3> <div id="res230104930" class="bucketwrap image medium" previewtitle="Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. &quot;The hair did stand up on the back of our heads,&quot; says Tom Hanks, above." readability="11.652173913"> <div class="captionwrap caption" readability="12"> <p>Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. "The hair did stand up on the back of our heads," says Tom Hanks, above.</p> </div> <span class="creditwrap rightsnotice">Hopper Stone, SMPSP</span> <div class="enlarge_html image_data" readability="12"> <p class="caption">Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. "The hair did stand up on the back of our heads," says Tom Hanks, above.</p> <span class="creditwrap rightsnotice">Hopper Stone, SMPSP</span></div> </div> <p><strong>On what drew them to the story</strong></p> <p>Hanks: The story itself was ... ripped right out of today's headlines. But all of the little intricacies of how a ship like that is run, and the details of the nature of the Somalis, and the particulars of everything that happened in those crucial hours on the ship and the days in the lifeboats was loaded with human behavior that was fascinating, compelling and unknown. ... There's a way of making this movie in which it pays most attention to the crackerjack action aspect of it — and that was always going to be a part of it in my head. But the particulars of how a guy like Richard Phillips starts working out this algorithm in his head the moment he first sees the pirate skipper approaching, that was brand new territory.</p> <p>Greengrass: I really wanted the experience of shooting on the ocean. Part of that was personal, my father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world. But also from the film point of view, I felt it would be a more authentic film if we all shot it together on the ocean and we had the real ships. ... We were on the sister ship [to Phillips' ship, the <em>Maersk Alabama</em>] ... it was an identical ship, it had a crew, we could draw information from the crew, and draw information and veracity from the actual environment. I think it made it an endlessly fascinating experience [and] a richly creative one from a filmmaking point of view.</p> <p><strong>On the difficulties of shooting on the water</strong></p> <p>Greengrass: Filmmaking is about resources, you need to be able to supply your units, your camera units, your sound units, you need to be able to get all your costumes and makeup and all the infrastructure of it — chargers, walkie-talkies, everything. ... It's not like saying, "Can you just get Joe to run a couple of walkie-talkies up to the stage?" Well, if you're 20 miles out to sea, that's quite a prodigious operation, and you've got to climb up 30-40 feet of ladder. So just the sheer logistics are difficult.</p> <p>And then you've got the weather, which is a profound issue. A lot of the shooting of this involved very small crafts, those skiffs, and what I wanted to make the film play was water that was dangerous enough to make it so you understood the drama of a skiff attack on a fast-moving container ship, but obviously that involves very large safety issues. We needed sea that was aggressive enough to be dynamic but not so aggressive that it was dangerous or too dangerous.</p> <div id="res230124696" class="bucketwrap image medium" previewtitle="Greengrass says it was important to him to find young Somali actors to play the part of the pirates. He held auditions in Minneapolis -- where there is a large Somali community -- and hundreds of actors showed up." readability="7"> <div class="captionwrap caption" readability="9"> <p>Greengrass says it was important to him to find young Somali actors to play the part of the pirates. He held auditions in Minneapolis — where there is a large Somali community — and hundreds of actors showed up.</p> </div> <span class="creditwrap rightsnotice">Hopper Stone, SMPSP</span></div> <p><strong>On Somali pirates and how Greengrass cast them in the movie</strong></p> <p>Greengrass: Somali piracy is international organized crime, that's actually what it is. These young men with their AK-47s attack from the coast of Somalia, but this is activity that is financed and organized thousands of miles away in Kenya and Nigeria and ultimately in Europe and in some cases in the U.S.; it's a highly organized criminal activity. The young men who are the guys that actually attack the ships, they're just the triggermen in essence, and of course they come from a country that's everything you'd expect and associate with a failed state: collapsed central government, warlordism, crime, gangs, terrorism in certain parts of the country. It's everything you'd imagine and more, and what you want in this film is to portray something of that with authenticity, there's nothing more dangerous than a young man with a gun who's got nothing left to lose.</p> <p>It became important, from my point of view, to find young Somali actors to play those parts, and that was the real central challenge of the casting process. ... There's no Somali acting community in Los Angeles or New York or Chicago so we had to go to Minneapolis where the largest Somali community is and what we found there was a very vibrant and rich and storied community, filled with musicians, actors, filmmakers, writers. ... So what began as [what] I thought would be a very difficult endeavor became very quickly simple. We had 7- or 800 people turn up for the first casting and very quickly we identified Barkhad Abdi and his three friends, as it turned out.</p> <p><strong>On keeping the Somali actors and Hanks' crew separate to make the fear feel authentic</strong></p> <p>Greenglass: I didn't want them to have become friends because in the end the job was to come through that door and terrorize and threaten and be believable. So we kept them apart, and it's sort of the trick you play, I'm afraid, when you're a director. You're trying to create moments that everybody is looking forward to in a shoot ... something that's two, three weeks down the road where everybody is going, "That's going to be an exciting day when those two groups meet each other." And I think it got everybody excited, and there was a good tension in the air.</p> <p>Hanks: We figured out in the crew, "We're not going to meet these guys, are we? It's not going to be a party at the hotel ..." We had seen little dots on the horizon because they had been working on the skiffs far away ... it was tense. We were scared in the best way possible because we know the guns aren't loaded, but those guys ... came in pumped up with all of the anxiety of being there in the first place, and all the expertise they had learned, all the work they had done, so ... when they blew that door open and came in screaming at us, I saw four of the skinniest, scariest human beings on the planet and the hair did stand up on the back of our heads. It was chaotic. It seemed like the rules had gone right out the window. In one way, we're just trying to survive the scene.</p> <p><strong>On having real Navy personnel taking care of Hanks after he is rescued</strong></p> <p>Hanks: Paul just said [to the Navy rep], "Well, what would you do?" And she just ran through, "Well, I'd try to get his focus. I'd try to talk to him. I'd try to find out how badly he's wounded. I'd try to figure out what blood is his. I'd try to figure out if there's any internal bleeding. I'd take his vital stats."</p> <p>She had a whole procedure equal to an emergency medical technician. So we cranked it, let fly, the very first take fell apart for technical reasons and it was loaded with moments of great self-consciousness, even from the Navy folks. ... [We said to them] "There's nothing you can say that's incorrect and there's nothing you can do that is not going to be worthwhile. So go ahead and do it." And we did five or six versions of it over a dizzying period of time.</p> <p>... What I was working from was actual photographs and a little bit of home video of Phillips on board the [destroyer USS] <em>Bainbridge</em> when people are congratulating him saying, "Welcome home." And he's in an absolute daze, you can see in his body language and in his eyes, he's barely cognizant of the surreal reality of what has just happened to him and on top of that, it was a very nice lady and a very crack team being sweet to Rich Phillips, so it ended up being kind of evocative.</p> <p>... [What] she says that is just heartrending ... is, "You're OK. You're going to be OK." And those are the greatest words that a human being could hear in that circumstance.</p> </div>Source: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/10/07/230103926/tom-hanks-is-captain-phillips-in-high-seas-hostage-drama?ft=1&f=1045">http://www.npr.org/2013/10/07/230103926/tom-hanks-is-captain-phillips-in-high-seas-hostage-drama?ft=1&f=1045</a><br />Category: <a href="http://thenaturalhemorrhoidcure.info/?p=1921">gravity</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://reviewengineroiplugin.info/being-your-personal-best-all-through-college/">Lake Natron</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://cell--phone--directory.com/how-to-use-your-iphone-and-all-it-has-to-offer-3/">chrissy teigen</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://delicatelybold.com/curious-about-coffee-read-these-tips-now/">Perez Hilton</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://empirerankbuilding.com/ways-you-can-optimize-sales-results-with-video-marketing/">cedar point</a> &nbsp; <div id="storytext" readability="210.355661059"> <div id="res230105680" class="bucketwrap image large" previewtitle="Director Paul Greengrass says he thought the film would feel more authentic if it was all shot at sea. He had personal motivations, too: &quot;My father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world,&quot; he says." readability="10.7403035413"> <div class="captionwrap caption" readability="11"> <p>Director Paul Greengrass says he thought the film would feel more authentic if it was all shot at sea. He had personal motivations, too: "My father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world," he says.</p> </div> <span class="creditwrap"><span class="credit">Jasin Boland</span>/<span class="rightsnotice">Columbia Pictures Industries</span></span> <div class="enlarge_html image_data" readability="11"> <p class="caption">Director Paul Greengrass says he thought the film would feel more authentic if it was all shot at sea. He had personal motivations, too: "My father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world," he says.</p> <span class="creditwrap"><span class="credit">Jasin Boland</span>/<span class="rightsnotice">Columbia Pictures Industries</span></span></div> </div> <p>In April 2009, Somali pirates boarded an American-flagged container ship and took its captain, Richard Phillips, hostage on a small lifeboat. That led to a five-day drama at sea, much of it covered on television, as a U.S. Navy destroyer tailed the lifeboat and Navy SEAL sharpshooters eventually freed the captain. In 2010 Phillips wrote a memoir called <em>A Captain's Duty</em> and the harrowing experience has now been adapted into a film called <em>Captain Phillips.</em></p> <p><em>Captain Phillips</em> is directed by Paul Greengrass and stars Tom Hanks, both of whom join <em>Fresh Air</em>'s Dave Davies to talk about the film. Greengrass began his career as a journalist making documentaries, often in war zones. His feature films — including <em>The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Bloody Sunday</em> and <em>United 93</em> — are known for fast-paced action and documentary-like drama. Hanks is a two-time Academy Award winner, getting back-to-back best actor Oscars for <em>Philadelphia</em> and <em>Forrest Gump</em>. He also got Oscar nominations for his roles in <em>Big, Saving Private Ryan</em> and <em>Cast Away</em>.</p> <h3 class="edTag">Interview Highlights</h3> <div id="res230104930" class="bucketwrap image medium" previewtitle="Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. &quot;The hair did stand up on the back of our heads,&quot; says Tom Hanks, above." readability="11.652173913"> <div class="captionwrap caption" readability="12"> <p>Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. "The hair did stand up on the back of our heads," says Tom Hanks, above.</p> </div> <span class="creditwrap rightsnotice">Hopper Stone, SMPSP</span> <div class="enlarge_html image_data" readability="12"> <p class="caption">Prior to filming, director Paul Greengrass kept the pirate crew and the boat crew separate to make the hijacking scenes feel more authentic. "The hair did stand up on the back of our heads," says Tom Hanks, above.</p> <span class="creditwrap rightsnotice">Hopper Stone, SMPSP</span></div> </div> <p><strong>On what drew them to the story</strong></p> <p>Hanks: The story itself was ... ripped right out of today's headlines. But all of the little intricacies of how a ship like that is run, and the details of the nature of the Somalis, and the particulars of everything that happened in those crucial hours on the ship and the days in the lifeboats was loaded with human behavior that was fascinating, compelling and unknown. ... There's a way of making this movie in which it pays most attention to the crackerjack action aspect of it — and that was always going to be a part of it in my head. But the particulars of how a guy like Richard Phillips starts working out this algorithm in his head the moment he first sees the pirate skipper approaching, that was brand new territory.</p> <p>Greengrass: I really wanted the experience of shooting on the ocean. Part of that was personal, my father was in the Merchant Marine and was at sea all his life so I wanted to explore his world. But also from the film point of view, I felt it would be a more authentic film if we all shot it together on the ocean and we had the real ships. ... We were on the sister ship [to Phillips' ship, the <em>Maersk Alabama</em>] ... it was an identical ship, it had a crew, we could draw information from the crew, and draw information and veracity from the actual environment. I think it made it an endlessly fascinating experience [and] a richly creative one from a filmmaking point of view.</p> <p><strong>On the difficulties of shooting on the water</strong></p> <p>Greengrass: Filmmaking is about resources, you need to be able to supply your units, your camera units, your sound units, you need to be able to get all your costumes and makeup and all the infrastructure of it — chargers, walkie-talkies, everything. ... It's not like saying, "Can you just get Joe to run a couple of walkie-talkies up to the stage?" Well, if you're 20 miles out to sea, that's quite a prodigious operation, and you've got to climb up 30-40 feet of ladder. So just the sheer logistics are difficult.</p> <p>And then you've got the weather, which is a profound issue. A lot of the shooting of this involved very small crafts, those skiffs, and what I wanted to make the film play was water that was dangerous enough to make it so you understood the drama of a skiff attack on a fast-moving container ship, but obviously that involves very large safety issues. We needed sea that was aggressive enough to be dynamic but not so aggressive that it was dangerous or too dangerous.</p> <div id="res230124696" class="bucketwrap image medium" previewtitle="Greengrass says it was important to him to find young Somali actors to play the part of the pirates. He held auditions in Minneapolis -- where there is a large Somali community -- and hundreds of actors showed up." readability="7"> <div class="captionwrap caption" readability="9"> <p>Greengrass says it was important to him to find young Somali actors to play the part of the pirates. He held auditions in Minneapolis — where there is a large Somali community — and hundreds of actors showed up.</p> </div> <span class="creditwrap rightsnotice">Hopper Stone, SMPSP</span></div> <p><strong>On Somali pirates and how Greengrass cast them in the movie</strong></p> <p>Greengrass: Somali piracy is international organized crime, that's actually what it is. These young men with their AK-47s attack from the coast of Somalia, but this is activity that is financed and organized thousands of miles away in Kenya and Nigeria and ultimately in Europe and in some cases in the U.S.; it's a highly organized criminal activity. The young men who are the guys that actually attack the ships, they're just the triggermen in essence, and of course they come from a country that's everything you'd expect and associate with a failed state: collapsed central government, warlordism, crime, gangs, terrorism in certain parts of the country. It's everything you'd imagine and more, and what you want in this film is to portray something of that with authenticity, there's nothing more dangerous than a young man with a gun who's got nothing left to lose.</p> <p>It became important, from my point of view, to find young Somali actors to play those parts, and that was the real central challenge of the casting process. ... There's no Somali acting community in Los Angeles or New York or Chicago so we had to go to Minneapolis where the largest Somali community is and what we found there was a very vibrant and rich and storied community, filled with musicians, actors, filmmakers, writers. ... So what began as [what] I thought would be a very difficult endeavor became very quickly simple. We had 7- or 800 people turn up for the first casting and very quickly we identified Barkhad Abdi and his three friends, as it turned out.</p> <p><strong>On keeping the Somali actors and Hanks' crew separate to make the fear feel authentic</strong></p> <p>Greenglass: I didn't want them to have become friends because in the end the job was to come through that door and terrorize and threaten and be believable. So we kept them apart, and it's sort of the trick you play, I'm afraid, when you're a director. You're trying to create moments that everybody is looking forward to in a shoot ... something that's two, three weeks down the road where everybody is going, "That's going to be an exciting day when those two groups meet each other." And I think it got everybody excited, and there was a good tension in the air.</p> <p>Hanks: We figured out in the crew, "We're not going to meet these guys, are we? It's not going to be a party at the hotel ..." We had seen little dots on the horizon because they had been working on the skiffs far away ... it was tense. We were scared in the best way possible because we know the guns aren't loaded, but those guys ... came in pumped up with all of the anxiety of being there in the first place, and all the expertise they had learned, all the work they had done, so ... when they blew that door open and came in screaming at us, I saw four of the skinniest, scariest human beings on the planet and the hair did stand up on the back of our heads. It was chaotic. It seemed like the rules had gone right out the window. In one way, we're just trying to survive the scene.</p> <p><strong>On having real Navy personnel taking care of Hanks after he is rescued</strong></p> <p>Hanks: Paul just said [to the Navy rep], "Well, what would you do?" And she just ran through, "Well, I'd try to get his focus. I'd try to talk to him. I'd try to find out how badly he's wounded. I'd try to figure out what blood is his. I'd try to figure out if there's any internal bleeding. I'd take his vital stats."</p> <p>She had a whole procedure equal to an emergency medical technician. So we cranked it, let fly, the very first take fell apart for technical reasons and it was loaded with moments of great self-consciousness, even from the Navy folks. ... [We said to them] "There's nothing you can say that's incorrect and there's nothing you can do that is not going to be worthwhile. So go ahead and do it." And we did five or six versions of it over a dizzying period of time.</p> <p>... What I was working from was actual photographs and a little bit of home video of Phillips on board the [destroyer USS] <em>Bainbridge</em> when people are congratulating him saying, "Welcome home." And he's in an absolute daze, you can see in his body language and in his eyes, he's barely cognizant of the surreal reality of what has just happened to him and on top of that, it was a very nice lady and a very crack team being sweet to Rich Phillips, so it ended up being kind of evocative.</p> <p>... [What] she says that is just heartrending ... is, "You're OK. You're going to be OK." 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